Sara Paretsky Quotes
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
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Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
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I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
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I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.
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Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
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I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
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I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
