Sara Paretsky Quotes
The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
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When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.
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I've always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.
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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
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I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me.
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People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
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I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
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Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.
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The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
