Jane Haddam (Orania Papazoglou) Quotes
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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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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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
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I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.
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Parental child abduction is child abuse.
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I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
