Laura Lippman Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.
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I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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Things are only as important as you make them out to be.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
