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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Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.
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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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So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
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It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Today and for the rest of my life I think I’ll be using the tools I’ve learnt from medical professionals, from what I’ve learnt from therapy, from what I’ve learnt from friends and talking about things.
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When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.
