Val McDermid Quotes
Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.
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If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.
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Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
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Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.
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Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.
