Patricia Cornwell Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
