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Cynthia Kadohata Quotes

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

Cynthia Kadohata

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 2, 1956

Topics

Day Book Write Years Fiction Seven

When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.

Child Me Colors Writing Fighting

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Robert Smithson

Memories Past Reality Museums Ground

A criminal pipeline from Cuba to Florida threatens U.S. national security interests with Cuban migrants exploiting U.S. law, stealing from the American taxpayer, and paying the Cuban government to live large off the cash in Cuba.

Live Government Law American Cuba

I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.

Good Focus Me Professional Will

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Good Good Idea Fired Get Willing

When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.

People Me Wait Thinking Better

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

Great School I Am Think Thinking

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

Win Important Company Contracts Than

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

Journey Fun People Sweet Portrait

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Better Others Own Destroy Errors

The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.

What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?

Woman Say Want Kind Human Just

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