Sara Paretsky Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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Malice is always authentic and sincere.
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Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.
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My mom used to call me a 'jean hoarder' growing up because I had so many pairs of jeans - and I still do.
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Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
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The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.
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Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?
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As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud.
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I always loved the Marvel movies. It was my dream to one day have superpowers, and that came true.
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I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.
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Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
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For the robust, an error is information.
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India is an ancient nation and not nation in the making. We are not to build a new nation but to make this ancient nation virile to face the challenge of modern times.
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America is - and will always be - a success story. We have African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and members of other ethnic groups elected to positions inside our governments.
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I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.
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I had everything to gain by giving it everything I could.
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Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.
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Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?
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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
