Adrian McKinty Quotes
With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges, as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen's basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law.
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I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
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I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.
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Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
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I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
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So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
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With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.
