Sara Paretsky Quotes
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
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I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.
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I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
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People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more
