Adrian McKinty Quotes
When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
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I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
