Sara Paretsky Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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My dad played football - and tennis as well - and so did my brothers. My dad was chairman of our local club, Spartans, for a while. But back when I was a boy, people didn't think of football as a career.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in a negative place and attract a negative partner and then try to get happy from that negative place.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with
