Adrian McKinty Quotes
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
Adrian McKinty
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
E. O. Wilson
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
Samantha Shannon
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose
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American myths have never been colorless.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.
Brock Lesnar
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
Alfred Molina
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Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.
Emily Oster
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Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
Jack Zipes
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Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
Adrian McKinty