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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I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else.
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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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.
