Patricia Cornwell Quotes
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.
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I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.
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Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
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What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
