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• I’ve been stalked.

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• First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

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• If you chomp down too hard on my work, you’re going to break your teeth.

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• Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

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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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• I don’t do things that are illegal.

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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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• Everyone is doing forensics.

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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 refuse to sit on my laurels.

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• My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they’ve got to say.

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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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• The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

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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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• The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

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• I constantly remind people that crime isn’t solved by technology; it’s solved by people.

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• I am a fan of Botox.

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• I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

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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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Patricia Cornwell (47)

Birth:	9th June, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Patricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies.A descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida to Marilyn and Sam Daniels. Her father was one of the leading appellate lawyers in the United States and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Cornwell later traced her own motivations in life to the emotional abuse she says she suffered from her father, who walked out on the family on Christmas Day 1961.

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