Adrian McKinty Quotes
People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
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People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.
