Patricia Cornwell Quotes
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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I am a journalist.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.