Ian Rankin Quotes

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

Ian Rankin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 28, 1960

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My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.

John Grisham

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I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

John Eaton

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I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

Maynard James Keenan

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To see that hard work paying off is very good.

Angelique Kerber

WorkHard WorkGoodHardSeeOff

If you like to run and the guys can't run, you don't run. If you like power, and you have guys that can't hit it out of the park, then you start moving guys around.

Tony La Russa

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Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.

Tom Perez

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Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Lord Salisbury

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There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

Liz Phair

WomenWrongNothingWanting

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

Joshua Waitzkin

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We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

Dick York

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For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

Antoni Porowski

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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Antonio Tabucchi

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