Quintin Jardine Quotes
For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
Quintin Jardine
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
Walter Kirn
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
Maggie Stiefvater
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Lacan, Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.
Camille Paglia
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If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.
Don Nickles
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I support Donald Trump, but I also support abortion and a women's right to choice, what to do with their body.
Kendra Wilkinson
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You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
Tom Berenger
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For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
Quintin Jardine