Karen Traviss Quotes
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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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.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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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.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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I would say that all successful people are fighters. They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
