Kerry Greenwood Quotes
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
Quotes to Explore
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.
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My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.
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I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
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As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
