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Adrian McKinty Quotes

People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1968

Topics

Past People Talk Like North Really

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

Family Dinner Walking Doing You

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

Melanie Chisholm

Love I Am You Situation Everyday

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

New York Insurance Result New Saw

I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.

Business Trust Day Team Believe You

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

Research Trying Look New Development

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

Rupert Sheldrake

People Research Writing Voice Doing

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

Luciano Pavarotti

Work World Think Fake You Anything

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Suffering Cold Head Idea Than Less

When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.

Eyes Time Light People Learn You

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

Work Teacher Time People Looking Go

Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.

Work Focus Will My Own Always Own

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

Chris Moneymaker

Family Today Time Money Competition

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