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Ruth Rendell Quotes

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father Heart Death Man Speak Lose

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

Son Age Parents Me Questions Asking

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

Michael Isikoff

Name Know Way Question Him Answer

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

Past Problems Dangerous Creating

Stay true to your vision/dream. There's something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up.

Robin S. Sharma

Past Trying You Achieve Said True

You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.

Time Forward Design You Move Asking

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

Christine O'Donnell

Thank You You Conservative Movement

With beauty, I just try to get as much sleep as possible. I might have a nice hot bath and moisturise with coconut oil.

Beauty Sleep Bath Nice Possible Try

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Sea Always Up Fortitude Incredible

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Good Time People World Socialism

The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis.

Wolfgang Schauble

Growth Deep American Result Hand

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Flu Fever Reports Virus Deadly

I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.

Thomas Heatherwick

Find Creating Inside Engage Respond

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