Kerry Greenwood Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.
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You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.
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I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.
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The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
