Kameron Hurley Quotes

Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one.

Kameron Hurley

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WritingBookYouDownNewTry

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

Jessie J

MyselfArtistOthersAlwaysBeen

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PeopleFindGoKnowOutUs

In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

Robert Fogel

PastWorldBodyThreeHumanSize

Part of the Khmer Rouge project was not only to destroy individual people, but to destroy the very notion of the individual. I want to simply rebuild the stories of people - it's part of my fight against the Khmer Rouge agenda.

Rithy Panh

FightPeopleWantProjectIndividual

Establish and maintain good working relationships with co-workers. You don't have to be friends, but you do have to be friendly.

Judy Smith

GoodFriendsYouRelationships

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't.

Don Mattingly

GameSayWorstLikeOur

It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.

Deborah Tannen

TimeIdeasConflictThinkPressure

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

Clint Smith

PoetryWorldEngineeringCareerWill

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

Arthur Smith

FunnyRelationshipHistoryWater

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Suze Orman

LifeHeartFreedomFinanceMindBig

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

Suzanne Vega

FightCrazyMeanFair

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Penn Jillette

AmericanMagicLateAudienceModern

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