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Shirley Manson Quotes

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: August 26, 1966

Topics

Mother Parents Friends Cozy Always

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

Good Respect Yourself Writing Story

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Humor Talking Everyday Heroes Jokes

Driving a forklift is kind of like riding a bicycle. You've either got forklift skills or you don't, and I can remove somebody's molars with a forklift.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Bicycle Driving You I Can Skills

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

Russell Simmons

Money Words Wake Up Someone Help

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Michael Ondaatje

Light Research You Know Difficult

It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.

Good Wind Golf Play Nice Even

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Suffering Reality Opinions You Dream

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

Me Hurt Want Talk Out Friendly

I've never spoken with Michelle Fields.

Corey Lewandowski

Never Fields Spoken Michelle

If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.

Beautiful Justice Me You Write Ask

I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

Health Responsibility Me Think Care

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Richard M. Daley

History Time First Time First Cook

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