Ellis Peters Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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I miss baseball.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Parenting is tough.
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
