Patricia Cornwell Quotes
My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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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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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
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Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
