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When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#called #charlie #coaching #i #joke

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them. ↗

— Jessica Pare

#dad #i #kid #pay #pretty

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd. ↗

— Jessica Pare

#did #guess #high #high school #i

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers. ↗

— Jessica Pare

#catholic #dad #eight #enormous #family

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#educating #expected #grew #home #i

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#bit #charity #chicago #church #cohesion

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#book #decided #pursue #relationship #see

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. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#crammed #each #keep #less #lot

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#along #astonishing #blended #breathtaking #chicago

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. ↗

— Sister Parish

#admitted #aunt #even #every #family