Adrian McKinty Quotes

The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.

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• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • You
  • How

• Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Fight
  • Security
  • Turn

• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Audience

• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Women
  • Love
  • Job

• I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Take
  • Nap

• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Morning

• Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Time
  • Intelligent
  • Stubborn

• I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Night

• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Experience
  • House
  • Research

• I'm a klutz, through and through.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Through

• Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Black
  • Day

• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Interesting

• If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Say

• I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Change

• I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Game
  • Thought

• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Friends

• I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Found
  • Dull
  • Whisky

• I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Military
  • Number
  • Watched

• Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Words

• The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.

  

  Adrian McKinty