Adrian McKinty Quotes
I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.
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Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.
