Karen Traviss Quotes

G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

Karen Traviss

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AttitudeHeartMeFeelMoreRight

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

Joe Wilson

TechnologyStormGenerationNewNeed

I get really sad when people say, 'I'm no good. I haven't been cast in a pilot.' It doesn't mean you're not good; it just means someone hasn't seen you yet. It doesn't mean that in real life you're not the greatest actor.

Matthew Gray Gubler

LifeGoodSadPeopleSomeoneYou

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

John Russell

InterestingMadnessMoreSanity

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

John Sununu

HomeworkMeasureSpecialCompliance

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Stephen Colbert

TodayTomorrowWorryDoingWeek

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Stephen Sondheim

PeopleRichYouInvestmentPersonal

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

Studs Terkel

YouBecomeRealizeActiveCountGet

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Steven Brust

FearTrustFashionActionNeverOut

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

Ron Rash

TimeStoryDecisionsAlwaysDialogue

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

Mike Farrell

HopeBestYouGets

This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

ChildrenTogetherFightGrowAmerica

Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly.

Lisa Madigan

EducationOpportunityHigher Education

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