Lisa Scottoline Quotes
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.
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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
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Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
