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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I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.
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Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.
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When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
