Patricia Cornwell quotes
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“I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.”
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“Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.”
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“I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : "Crime Novelist Patricia Cornwell on Blood, 'Boundaries' and Her Next Book" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. December 6, 2011.
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“If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : "Crime does pay" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.
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“In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.”
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“I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.
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“Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.”
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“I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.”
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“I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.”
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“With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.”
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“I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.”
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“I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.”
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“I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.”
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“Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.”
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“Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.”
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“You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.”
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“My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.
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“I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.”
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“I like to get to bed with a clear head.”
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“I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.”
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“America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?”
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“I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.”
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“Thoughts are odd misfires.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2001). “The Last Precinct: Scarpetta”, p.36, Penguin
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“Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.”
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“To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
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“When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.”
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“You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.”
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“And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.”
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“Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Postmortem”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
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“Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?”
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“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”
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“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.224, Simon and Schuster
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“Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2007). “The Body Farm”, Berkley
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“I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
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“rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Four Scarpetta Novels”, p.415, Penguin
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“When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.”
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“He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.”
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“We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : Patricia Cornwell (2001). “The Last Precinct: Scarpetta”, p.44, Penguin
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“On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.”
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“I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.”
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“First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.”
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“But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.”
-- Patricia CornwellSource : "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.
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“Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.”
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“Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.”
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“I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.”
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“Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets”
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“I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.”
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“The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.”
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“In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.”
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