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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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach. ... Each church fulfills spiritual needs that perhaps others cannot fill. No one church can fulfill everybody's needs at every level.
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I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.
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For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
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When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
