Sara Paretsky Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.
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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
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I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.