Val McDermid Quotes
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Quotes to Explore
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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My health is fine.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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I can't protect myself when I'm not facing the play.
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To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
