Denise Mina Quotes
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I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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I'll be kicked out before I rust out.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
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Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.
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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
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I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don't know me, it may be disturbing.
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I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.
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Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
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Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.
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In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
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"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.
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Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Journalism is a Darwinian process.
