Kerry Greenwood Quotes
When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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America is huge.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
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I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
