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Ruth Rendell Quotes

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Succeed Think Feel Try Because Pity

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.

Joachim de Posada

Life Community People Country Person

And plenty makes us poor.

Money Poor Us Makes Plenty

It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

Good Football Game Think You True

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.

Life Family Woman Vacation Painting

People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.

People Me You Mouth Body Your Body

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

Work Good New York Career Choice

It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things.

Time Weird Questions Know First Time

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

You Know Will Need Buy Anything

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Christopher Wren

Eyes Time Men Earth Will See

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

Christopher McQuarrie

War Conflict Story Think Sides Tell

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

Enjoy Tragedy Triumph Over Reporting

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Work Character Amazing Start Think

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