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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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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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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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and make sure when we get ready to fly to Mars that we are ready for what we're going to be exposed to.
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I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at 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.
