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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To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell
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The most destructive criticism is indifference.
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I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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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.
