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Martha Grimes Quotes

I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 2, 1931

Topics

Feel Hang Atmosphere Get Idea Visit

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

Love Business Writing Book Wish Run

For some reason for me, and a lot of people, it's so hard to accept help even when it's from your closest friends.

People Me Friends Help Accept Hard

I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love.

Love Time Me Someone Fall Kind

In a genuinely conservative district like mine, it's hard to out-Republican me.

Me Conservative Hard Mine Like

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Tears Problem You Find Run Right

A savory chef must first master his knife skills and understand the basics of sauces and soups, etc., before he/she may move on to become a great chef. It is no different for pastry chefs. If you do not have a strong foundation and are a master of the basics, then you will never be that strong - you will never be a master of the trade - period.

Great Chef Foundation Strong You

I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.

Life Beautiful Fighting Top Need

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

Live Today Tree Perspective Day War

If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk about her on the weekends.

Chelsea Handler

Week You Bear Talk Days Weekends

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

Teacher School I Am Space NASA Go

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

Me Artist Want Become First Made

Republicans will own Congress.

Congress Will Own Republicans

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