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 felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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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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Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.
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Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.
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I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
