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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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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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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I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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Nelson, re watching TV He watches until he feels his intelligence being too rudely insulted or his patience being too arrogantly tested by the commercials...
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Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
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That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
