Adrian McKinty Quotes

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Adrian McKinty

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If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Jimmy Scott

SingingStoryYouRightTell

For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group.

Joe Nichols

BrokenI AmMeArtistGroupGoing

We need to stop arguing about things that don't help Argentina grow.

Mauricio Macri

GrowHelpStopNeedArguingThings

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

Steve Clevenger

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I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.

Tommy Kirk

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I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate.

Rose Namajunas

LoveHateLove IsEnergyMoreThan

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Loretta Lynn

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My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however.

Chris Ware

LifeHomeLiveTimeWifeMe

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

Bradley Whitford

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I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Bryan Clay

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Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

Ashton Kutcher

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In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

Noam Chomsky

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