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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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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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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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 hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
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I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
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Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
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In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.
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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.
