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Adrian McKinty Quotes

I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

Adrian McKinty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1968

Topics

Daughter Wife Blue New York Speak

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

Jo Brand

Character Day I Am Ugly Painting

For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.

Jenna Wortham

Power Great Black Place Out Hang

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

John Dryden

Fool Tired Me Eagle Wings Now

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

Amity Shlaes

Culture Focus Government Energy Race

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Stephen Sondheim

Down Country Used Broadway Get Them

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

Funny Speak I Can Like Native

I'll tell you what makes me feel worthwhile: organizing and solving other people's problems. It makes me feel good to go to Mexico City and figure out theories on how you can reorganize and reduce crime. To me, it's one of the more fulfilling ways to spend a day.

Rudy Giuliani

Good Day People City Me Feel Good

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

Lou Reed

Care Know Critic Who Actually Says

I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market forces, which is not the case.

Boots Riley

Need Endeavor Pure Market Forces

I am convinced that as we move more towards cloud services, there is going to be a greater need for connectivity.

Borje Ekholm

I Am Cloud More Need Going Move

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

Brittany Snow

Life Good Teen People Black Play

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

Antonio Banderas

Doing You Feeling Nothing Actor