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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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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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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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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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 want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
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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.
