Sara Paretsky Quotes
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.
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The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.
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I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
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We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.
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In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
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Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un.
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So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
