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Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Against Artist Birds Clan Disciplined Francisco Go Her Herself Husband Journey Martial Men Personal Prey Pursue Quest San San Francisco She Sword Trained Vengeance

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When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn't laugh, didn't loosen up, didn't seem to have a light side. I thought, well, that demure nature is what we believe of women of Old Japan, so she seemed not like a modern Japanese but from an earlier time.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: About Believe Birds Curious Earlier Her Japan Japanese Laugh Light Like Loosen Modern Nature Old Prey Read Restraint Run Seem Seemed She Side Thought Time Up Well Women

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I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

~Anne Hull

Topics: Around Backs Barefoot Birds Cattle Central Clearing Disney Disturbed Father Flock Florida Grew Half Half The Time Land Lift Orange Remember Running Time Up Walt Walt Disney Where White Worked World Would I Remember

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I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

~Antonio Carlos Jobim

Topics: Beach Believe Birds Boy Brazilian Forest Learned Songs I Believe

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Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: About Alive Away Basic Birds Example Feeling For Example Hunger Imagine Inside Life Look Out Pain Satisfy Sense Something Thirst Ticking World You

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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Always Birds Came Home How Play Roost Story Structure

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Thank God I have parents who'd support the crazy things I did. If my dad found a snake, I'd take it to the woods. I was always taking these homeless birds and homeless cats home.

~Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Topics: Always Birds Cats Crazy Crazy Things Dad Did Found God Home Homeless Parents Snake Support Take Taking Thank Thank God Things Woods

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The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

~August Krogh

Topics: Adaptation Adapted Birds Definitely Fact Flight Fly Form Function Greatly Mechanisms Reduced Respiratory Show Which

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It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.

~August Krogh

Topics: Bicycle Birds Certain Constant Doubt Fishes Flight Information Insects Man Metabolism No Doubt Obtain Obtained Possible Rate Similar Study Swimming Technically Treadmill Work

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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

~Barbara Mandrell

Topics: Big Bird Birds Days Every Food Garden Get Morning Part Squirrels Summer Which Year 365 Days

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