Val McDermid Quotes
I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I didn't really have the most healthy of upbringings.
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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I try to improve upon myself every day, and I try to make sure that I spend more time not doing things that I think I need to be doing.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
