Sara Paretsky Quotes
Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.Sara Paretsky
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier -
I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
Zachary Quinto -
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz -
I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
Ion Tiriac -
If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
Tavi Gevinson -
As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
Karin Slaughter
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
Wanda Sykes -
I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
Ice Cube -
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Ramana Maharshi -
When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
Adam Ferrara -
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
Najib Razak -
I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
Karl Rove
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I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.
Olivia Colman -
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W. H. Auden -
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
Anthony de Mello -
Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
Jeh Johnson -
I'm an 'SNL' junkie, and being backstage and seeing how it works behind the curtain for a couple days was something I'll never forget.
Lenny Platt -
I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.
Cliff Curtis
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The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.
Charles Handy -
Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!
Haruki Murakami -
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
Charles R. Swindoll -
I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
Michelle Shocked -
I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
Chris Lilley -
Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.
Sara Paretsky