Val McDermid Quotes
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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I hate exercising self-control.
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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.
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Miss Marple twinkled at me.
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I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there.
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I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been.
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As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
