Karen Traviss Quotes
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
Karen Traviss
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
Natalie Massenet
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
Otto Preminger
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
Baltasar Kormakur
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
Taraji P. Henson
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
Hansika Motwani
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
Ramana Maharshi
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
M. Night Shyamalan
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
Irvin D. Yalom
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I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.
Norm MacDonald
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.
Sarah Dessen
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President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.
William L. Jenkins
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
Karen Traviss
