Karen Traviss Quotes
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
