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Kerry Greenwood Quotes

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

Kerry Greenwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: australian
Birth: June 17, 1954

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Writing Way First Started Because

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Leader War Strong Budget Terrorism

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

Strength Believe Think Learn You

I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.

Andre Leon Talley

Home Year Party Bed New Want

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

Government Slavery Fly Buildings

Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.

Best Do Your Best You Try Determined

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

Think Die Never Going Conceit

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

Work People Me Questions Person

I'm the kind of guy who likes to have a little friendly banter, even with someone I disagree with.

Someone Kind Disagree Little Guy

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

Fear Best Society Wish Doing Become

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

Language Innocence Long You Never

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

Trying Sometimes My Own Possible Own

My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.

Bryan Greenberg

New York Listening Remember New Kid

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