Adrian McKinty Quotes

Our daughter's name Arwynn comes from Arwen in 'Lord of the Rings' because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.

Adrian McKinty

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When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

Melissa Rosenberg

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I love the action stuff. Honestly, I like sci-fi and everything supernatural.

Meaghan Rath

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Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

Meghan O'Rourke

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I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can be, the best spinner I can be. Nothing is easy about that. But I'm doing whatever I can to be the best.

Max Aaron

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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Anita Brookner

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The social use of Slack does drive awareness - it's a good thing for us.

Stewart Butterfield

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Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Mike Epps

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Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

Michel Patini

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It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Louis C. K.

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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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