Sara Paretsky Quotes
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
Gavin MacLeod -
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Waylon Jennings -
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster -
My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
Harriet Walter -
I don't talk in ifs.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Jack Kevorkian
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
Daniel Clowes -
I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
Cameron Crowe -
I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
Frances McDormand -
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
W. C. Fields -
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
T. S. Eliot -
I basically try to give people top quality.
Anthony Santos Aventura
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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Preston Brooks -
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
Marina Abramovic -
Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.
Aleksey Igudesman -
I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.
Les Claypool -
If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.
Amanda de Cadenet -
You learn a lot about a person when you work together.
Alexis Denisof
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A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
La'Porsha Renae -
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck -
I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
Sara Paretsky