Karin Lowachee Quotes
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo a familiar landscape, he brings it out of the Earth milieu and into a bold new universe where technology and tradition collide. I enjoyed his colorful characters and musical use of language; his voice is fresh and entirely readable.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
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Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
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When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'
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Texas is made for trade.
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I'm a golfer not a history major.
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I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.
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You're going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That's how it is.
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I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.
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I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.
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I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.
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In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.
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Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo a familiar landscape, he brings it out of the Earth milieu and into a bold new universe where technology and tradition collide. I enjoyed his colorful characters and musical use of language; his voice is fresh and entirely readable.
