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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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.
Daniel Barenboim -
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
A. B. Yehoshua -
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.
Barry Eisler -
My health is fine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Nate Silver -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
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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 -
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis -
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
Samuel E. Morison -
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith -
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 -
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 -
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak -
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino -
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
Ian Mckellen
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I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'
Donald Trump -
The NBA man, we have always been progressive.
Charles Barkley -
New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.
Zephyr Teachout -
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.
John Hull -
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Val McDermid