Tess Gerritsen Quotes

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

Tess Gerritsen

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HeartPeopleMeThinkTryingWhy

If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.

Jimmy Swaggart

GoodMeEnoughYouLookFind

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Joan Jett

LifeChildParentsMeYoungFollow

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

Andre Benjamin

WayThingsSeenFitLikeFan

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

John le Carre

AgeMyselfMaturityDemocracyFind

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

John James Audubon

BeautifulDayOne DayDolphinsFour

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

Steven Tyler

GoodI AmNothingBandWithoutAm

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Tony DiTerlizzi

TechnologyMindSurviveEvolution

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

Tony Hale

OpportunityKindOwnDifferentStuff

In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.'

Roger Avary

GoodSmallImpossibleThinkHurt

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

Martin Parr

TravelI AmAppreciateSeeingTake

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually.

Monica Lewinsky

LifeHeartRomanticAmazingThink

I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal.

Julia Cameron

MotherMusicArtCreativityCreative

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