Kerry Greenwood Quotes
Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
Wanda Sykes
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
Daley Thompson
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
Ed Royce
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
B. B. King
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
Felix Baumgartner
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
Dana Plato
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
Fiona Apple
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
Daniel Alarcon
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
Abby Wambach
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Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.
Candice Olson
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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But just because we're conditioned to view some things as disgusting and immoral doesn't mean that some things aren't, in actual point of fact, disgusting and immoral. Human sacrifice, for instance. Or cannibalism. Or Ann Coulter.
Dan Savage
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The language of Europe is translation.
Umberto Eco
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For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
Pat Robertson
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There are in the Exhibition some beautiful examples of such lace amongst the productions of other countries as well as of our own. They are made by the united labour of many women. The cost of a piece of lace will consist of:
Charles Babbage
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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar Wilde
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
Jack Kirby
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Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.
Kerry Greenwood