Ian Rankin Quotes
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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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 didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
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As a woman candidate myself, I know how important it was to be encouraged to run, to think outside of the box.
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Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
