Sara Paretsky Quotes
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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I've got loads of nieces and nephews.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.
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There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
