Karen Traviss Quotes

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

Karen Traviss

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All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Jerry Saltz

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I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.

Jessica Sanchez

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Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.

Jens Lekman

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I have met every president since President Kennedy. And I think Barack Obama must be listed as one of the best. This young man has been so inspiring - not just to people in America but to people all around the world.

John Lewis

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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

Matthieu Ricard

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We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

Stuart Rose

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I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

Steven Spielberg

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Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

Silvan Shalom

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Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Trevor Rabin

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Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or even in the entire discretionary budget, defense included. Rather, the financial bleeding needs to be staunched where the hole is and nowhere else.

Robert Zubrin

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Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

Roy Ayers

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When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.

Josh Kopelman

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