Kathy Reichs Quotes
I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
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The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
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I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
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I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.
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The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered
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Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed
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I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore - total fag.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.
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Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.
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Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
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One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.
