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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.


Val McDermid

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JOAQUIN ANDUJAR If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset some...
LEWIS BLACK I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.
SIDNEY CROSBY It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they...
ELISHA CUTHBERT If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell...
ERNST FISCHER You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you...
ROSALYNN CARTER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don&...
VANILLA ICE If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab...
KELLY ROWLAND There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's ...
MARK WARKENTIN Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing...
MADS MIKKELSEN You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don...
MACY GRAY You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som...
CAROL BURNETT I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, yo...
FRANKIE VALLI If you don't vote, you don't count.
NANCY PELOSI If you don't believe you don't belong.
ALAN KULWICKI Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.
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JERRY POURNELLE I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some...
CAM Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go...
GEORGE WEAH If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's ...
BARBARA BOXER You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's imm...
ROMAN POLANSKI If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
RAY BRADBURY If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if y...
JESSE JACKSON If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.
ESTEE LAUDER If you don't like public service, don't run for office.
ELIZABETH ESTY It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&...
JOEL MADDEN If you don't like me, it's your problem.
KAT DENNINGS Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it...
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen...
JOHN DE MOL, JR. If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
HAROLD FORD, JR. Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something....
LANE KIRKLAND If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an...
CASEY STENGEL You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
SIMON COWELL Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'...
BRYAN FULLER If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone....
CARMEN ELECTRA I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. I...
ZEDD I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c...
ELLEN DEGENERES Don't get old, if you can avoid it.
BILLY GRAHAM The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the be...
WILL ROGERS If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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MARIO BALOTELLI If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g...
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PETER THIEL If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.
JOHNNY MILLER If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.
BRYCE HARPER If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
DEAN MARTIN If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
ANDY WARHOL Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y...
NOAH HAWLEY You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's mis...
TERRELL DAVIS The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. Th...
MICHAEL MOORE If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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BETTY WRIGHT Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes,...
DAVID PACKARD I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
CANDY CROWLEY If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then i...
PAUL MOONEY If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
L'WREN SCOTT If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheim...
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DUFF GOLDMAN If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have int...
JIM BROWN I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#...
CARLENE CARTER If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.
SAOIRSE RONAN You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.
AGNES GUND Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
SATCHEL PAIGE If you don't look good, we don't look good.
VIDAL SASSOON If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
DARIO ARGENTO If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'...
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JACK HUSTON If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think ...
JOHN WELLS It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't li...
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MITCH HEDBERG A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'...
SOPHIA AMORUSO I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I&#...
CATHERINE TATE If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don&...
BARRY O'FARRELL You can't learn if you don't try.
DAVID GREEN If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
HEATH LEDGER If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
TOMMY LASORDA You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.
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JEN KIRKMAN If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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JERRY DOYLE If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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seek immortality give. Serve or give your
time...
VAL UCHENDU If you seek success, serve others. If you
seek immortality give. Serve or give your
time...
VAL UCHENDU There's no difficulty that love cannot conquer...
no door love cannot open...

No wa...
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VAL UCHENDU The terrain is mountainous and difficult to access.
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VAL UCHENDU If you don't know the effect of
words, you are behind times.If
you want positivity, spea...
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