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.
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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.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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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.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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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.
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We just here to do our job.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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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.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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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.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
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My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.
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In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
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My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
