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Ruth Rendell Quotes

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015

Topics

Fear Live People More Out Committed

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Life Me Tested Learned Works

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

Women Know Seriously Reason Seem

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

Music Art Literature Place Earth

I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.

Character Crazy You Hip-Hop Mean

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Stefanie Powers

Friendship Friend Respect Value Mind

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.

Father Farm Up Countryside Where

To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.

Job Me Feel Acting Different Really

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Growing Up Boat Think Friends You

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.

Love Good Value Revenge Bad Kind

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Family Parenting Me Cool First Come

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

Work Music People Help Know Nice

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

Change Time Past Tomorrow Year Look

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