Val McDermid Quotes
If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
