Tess Gerritsen Quotes

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

Tess Gerritsen

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When my lips are dry, I can't smile, I can't talk - it's debilitating!

Jessica Jung

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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Max Frisch

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It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

Ann Demeulemeester

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I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.

Jeff Buckley

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The 'No.1 IT company' isn't by volume, it's in relation to business customers because those are my customers, not the consumer. Who do they view as their most important partner? That's my definition of the 'No.1 IT company.'

John T. Chambers

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Looking at how things might be under Trump is scary, particularly when a pinnacle moment in his campaign saw him mocking and belittling a reporter with a disability.

Sinead Burke

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I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.

Roberto Firmino

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I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.

Dimitri Payet

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I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.

Douglas Tompkins

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The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.

Cory Booker

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The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Brendan Myers

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