Ian Rankin Quotes

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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• I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

  

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• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

  

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• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

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• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

  

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• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

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• I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

  

  Oren Peli
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• Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

  

  Tatyana Ali
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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

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• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

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• I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

  

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• It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

  

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• I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.

  

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• I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

  

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• Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.

  

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• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

  

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• I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company.

  

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• Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

  

  Brad Bird

• I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

  

  Ian Rankin
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