Val McDermid Quotes
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Val McDermid
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
Randi Weingarten
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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.'
Zoe Sugg
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
Samuel E. Morison
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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?
Carl Honore
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith
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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.
Samuel Morse
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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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.
Carey Mulligan
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
Mahershala Ali
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
Barbara Castle
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I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Caleb Cushing
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
Antonio Machado
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I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.
Zach Condon
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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.
Val McDermid
