Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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My health is fine.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
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People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
