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Ian Rankin Quotes

I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Freedom Police Bad Want Become Line

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

You Rules Go Go For It See Just

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Jennifer Aniston

God Religion Believe Looks Know Own

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

Work Adversity Best Flying More Fur

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

Hell Someone Bad Person Say She

I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.

Bond Loved Director Two Everything

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

Michael Foreman

Children Child House Only Books Our

I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.

Great Win World Think Target Twice

It would not occur to me to write a joke like, 'This would be great if I was more like Andrew Dice Clay.' It's not the voice I write in - which is largely an extension of the voice in my head that I think in.

Great Me Voice Think More Write

It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due each year because wealthy individuals and some companies use tax havens to move assets and income offshore.

Jose Angel Gurria

Rich Year Lose Tax Suffer Move

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Child Parents Book Parent Jokes

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Life I Am Black My Life White Grey

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

I Am Genius Nerdy Am

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