Adrian McKinty Quotes

On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

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• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

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• In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

  

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• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

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• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

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• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  

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• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

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• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

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• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

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• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

  

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• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

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• I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

  

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• My life is my message.

  

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• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

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• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

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• A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.

  

  Andy Dunn
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• There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.

  

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• If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

  

  H. G. Wells
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  • War

• I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

  

  Amity Shlaes
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• Love's stronger than fear and death.

  

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• On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • War