Val McDermid Quotes
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
Quotes to Explore
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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Joe and I always say that our guide through action is always story and character. We're always driving right at the character beats, or else the action beat doesn't work.
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I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
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I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
