Val McDermid Quotes

I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.

Val McDermid

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That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

Joe Perry

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Forward movement is a good thing, but I always include that it's not enough, and we have to have a base where we can truly build. That cannot be done inside of the corporate, establishment political parties.

Jill Stein

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As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.

John Landgraf

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'McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster.

Sidney Sheinberg

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People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.

Troy Polamalu

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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Robert Anton Wilson

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Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

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When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'

Dick Van Dyke

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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

Douglas Conant

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Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?

Chris Vance

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In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

Chuck Yeager

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