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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.
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I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.
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I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.
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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.
