Sara Paretsky Quotes
I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
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I hate auditions.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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If the Americans have Superman, we have Panday.
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I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.
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Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
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Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.
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I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
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I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.
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I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.
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I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.
