Patricia Cornwell Quotes

That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

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• I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Fun
  • Wish
  • Internet

• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Artist
  • First
  • Portrait

• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Anger
  • Ice

• Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Me
  • Taught
  • Cautious

• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Dad
  • Friendly

• I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Want
  • Actor
  • The Right Thing

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Probably

• While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it.

  

  Jennifer Bini Taylor
  • Up
  • Growing

• My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Space

• We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Family
  • Hockey

• I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Time
  • Music
  • Why

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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