Sara Paretsky Quotes
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'
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Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.
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They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.
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Everything in my heart. I think you have to be truthful when writing songs. You have to allow your soul to undress until the naked truth find its way onto the page.
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Write what you care about.
