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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The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.
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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
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I learned a lot from observing Wayne at the Rogers Cup. He was offered a cart across the grounds, but he wouldn't take it; he walked and stopped and signed autographs for people, and I thought that was amazing.
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The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
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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.
