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Val McDermid Quotes

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: June 4, 1955

Topics

You Said She Books Easier Dear

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

Think Media Way Who Then Really

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

John F. Kennedy

Today Service Man Tomorrow Living

I never thought I'd be a Covergirl at almost 70.

Thought Never Almost

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Amanda Seyfried

Funny Cool Nice She Always Awesome

I really want to learn how to rap. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous!

Learn Know Ridiculous Want Rap How

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

Knowledge Limits Understanding Year

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

Love Opportunity People Know Get

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

Me I Can Play Sometimes Need Big

I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of.

Hope Proud Know Nothing More Bring

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Day Every Day Artists Who Himself

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Father Me Weird Sometimes Never Him

I always say, 'Obama is my president - the president of the world.'

Brunello Cucinelli

World Say President Always Obama

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