Ian Rankin Quotes
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I hate competition.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
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People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically.
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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.
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I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
