Ellis Peters Quotes
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
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In art, the obvious is a sin.
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It's true I've got no shirts to wear;
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Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.
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In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
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I love exercise, but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates, and taking dance lessons.
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
