Val McDermid Quotes
I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I find the business world hard.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.
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I can't say enough about 'OLTL's' strong cast.
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I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
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I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
