Val McDermid Quotes
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
