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"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."
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"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."
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"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."
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"As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home."
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"The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church."
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"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."
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"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
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"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."
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"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."
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"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."
Publishing
"I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book."
Thought
"I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses."
Life
"People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more."
People
"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed."
Money
"In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women."
Man
"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs."
Identity
"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."
Crime
"Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior."
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"Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel."
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