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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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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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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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
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You can sense their anger before they even say a word.
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
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No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
