Alma Katsu Quotes
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
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It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny - and it has been bitter - whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.
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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
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Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.
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I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
