Julie Kagawa Quotes
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
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I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
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I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.
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When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples - and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.
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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
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I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
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I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.
