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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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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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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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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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.
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The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.
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I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
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Come cosa buona non si trovaChe duri sempre, così ancor né ria.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
