Adrian McKinty Quotes
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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I am actually a very gentle person.
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As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
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I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
