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Ian Rankin Quotes

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beginning Write Right Fiction Knew

To create something you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You Create Something Must

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

Day Religion Free Country Will

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Story You Want Decide Big Angles

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.

Stephanie Coontz

Marriage Community Become Modern

I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

Money Enough Done Movies Where

When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door, you don't really tend to spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go down to the market, so it's really not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel like I'm ahead of myself.

Time Myself Yourself People Door

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Jorge Luis Borges

Uncertainty Unknown Greeks State

I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.

America Want More Forgotten Make

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

Education Today Science School Deep

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

People Me Think Show Substance

When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.

Good Time Me Having A Good Time Meet

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Creative Creation Up Force Give

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