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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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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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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
