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Tess Gerritsen Quotes

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

Tess Gerritsen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 12, 1953

Topics

Character Best Shine Colors Better

Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.

Joanna Coles

People Look Find More Sound Open

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

Jo Nesbo

Time Coffee I Am Writing Hotel Go

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Jerry Buss

Early Career Wanted Mathematician

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man People American Wrong Side Like

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Rose Push You Feeling Out Side

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

Tracey Gold

Battle Anorexia Very Public Had

When I put on my Marine cover, I'm a Marine, and I act accordingly.

Rob Riggle

Act Cover Accordingly Marine Put

Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.

Robin Van Persie

Think Ball Average Somewhere Half

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

Michael Leunig

Life Child Think Better My Life

When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary.

Jason Mraz

Love Yourself Singing Song Universe

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

Jonah Peretti

Potential End Living Will Up Sell

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

Dick Cheney

Matter Reagan Proved Deficits