Karen Traviss Quotes
I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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The importance of first-week sales has kind of diminished, in our opinion, in the industry, and we don't really know what it really means anymore. It is what it is in the industry. And for us, it's all about the endgame, not where it begins.
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Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
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I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
