Sara Paretsky Quotes
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
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When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.
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I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
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A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
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I'm never going to put another girl in my group. Never!
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
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I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.
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Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.
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What has worked for me is therapy in conjunction with nutritionist who specializes in eating disorders that I see every two weeks.
