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Ian Rankin Quotes

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Great America Back Country

The Google model of targeted advertising is appealing because it claims to cut down on waste. We need to ask how that efficiency can be brought to creative process.

Jerry Della Femina

Creative Advertising Efficiency Down

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.

Life Love Myself People Saying Up

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

Good Baseball People Better Wish Go

I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.

Sad Feel Go Dead Still Like

For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms - have found it easier to continue producing by - with - reducing their workforces.

Change Manufacturing Economy Pace

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

Douglas Coupland

Personality Brain Now Will Away

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Adventure Love Is Universe Only

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

Brother Sister Different Almost Whom

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

Home Go Talk Come Cows Direct

After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down.

Work People Me Down Resurrection

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Eyes I Can Matter Poor Talk Still

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Within Level Athletics Highest Sport

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