Patricia Cornwell Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'
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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
