Patricia Cornwell Quotes
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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You’re not as cold as you pretend to be,’ she said. ‘I think your doors open in different places, that’s all. Most people just don’t know how to get in to you. They knock and they knock where the door is supposed to be, but it’s a blank wall. But you’re there. I’ve watched you. I’ve seen you do some awfully cold things warmly and some warm things coldly. Or does that make sense?
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The relationship between the HBCUs and the auto makers is historically really important.
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When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
