Sara Paretsky Quotes
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Randall Jarrell -
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.
Yash Chopra -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
Science is about unravelling nature.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
C. K. Williams -
I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
Nadine Velazquez
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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.
Kate Atkinson -
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.
A. A. Milne -
I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
Xavier Dolan -
Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
Frances McDormand -
I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.
Joe Anderson -
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Kathryn Bigelow
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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.
Aslan Maskhadov -
I'm never going to put another girl in my group. Never!
Tionne Watkins TLC -
Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
Lena Horne -
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.
Kanye West -
Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.
Napoleon Hill -
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
Edward James Salisbury
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Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
Lysander Spooner -
When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.
Aaron John Baddeley -
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
Colin Kaepernick -
When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
Sara Paretsky