Martha Grimes Quotes

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

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• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
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• What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

  

  Pat Cadigan
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• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

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• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

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• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

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• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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  • Time
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• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
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• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
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• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

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  • People
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• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
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• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Time
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• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

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• Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.

  

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  • Better
  • Shots

• If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

  

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• I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.

  

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  • Time
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• Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

  

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• Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  

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  • Good
  • Power

• Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

  

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  • People
  • Music
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• I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

  

  Martha Grimes
  • Writing
  • Bored