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Laura Lippman Quotes

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1959

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Opportunity Me Go Crime Way Out

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Child Tough Actor Adolescence

I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can't get my head around it.

Guitar You Sound Everything Head Up

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Maynard James Keenan

Future Music People Want Because

Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.

Life Life Is Hard Moments You Lucky

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Fear Actually Brings Factor

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Good Day Tomorrow Better Drama Dead

With a fantasy world, it's like, this is my world. I literally made it. So if I tell you something, you do have to sit back and observe more. You need to sit back and listen more to understand what is going on or what's happening in the world. And I think there's a lot of power in that.

Power World Think You Back Need

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

Love Amazing Face Know Meal Paint

I love a white shirt; there's nothing sexier on a woman than a white men's shirt.

Love Men Woman White Nothing Shirt

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Down Seventies Only Front Moved Put

I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.

Women Start Evening Reach Friends

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

People Control Energy Think Human

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