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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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.
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I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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I just think that humans were created to look upward
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
