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" The human capacity to be curious has always existed. "
Patricia Cornwell
Human
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Always
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" I refuse to sit on my laurels. "
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" I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable. "
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" I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles. "
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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 like to get to bed with a clear head. "
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" That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character. "
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" But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. "
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" I am a fan of Botox. "
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" If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999. "
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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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" I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays. "
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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've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. "
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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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" I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. "
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" I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns. "
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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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" 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'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer. "
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" I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people. "
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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. "
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" In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. "
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