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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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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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
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If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
