Martha Grimes Quotes
I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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Necessity has no law.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
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Never give up.
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In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
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If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.
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I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.
