Denise Mina Quotes

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

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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.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Water
  • Always
  • Fish

• I never exercise, and I eat everything.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Never
  • Exercise
  • Everything

• I'll be kicked out before I rust out.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Before
  • Out
  • Rust

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Memory
  • Hot
  • Iron

• 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.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Good
  • Better
  • Fathers Day

• Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Amazing
  • Say
  • Really

• 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.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • War
  • Me

• I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Know
  • Impossible
  • I Can

• Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Confident

• 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.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Shows
  • Started
  • Modeling

• Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • Forever

• In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.

  

  Bill Kristol

• 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.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • People
  • Political
  • Path

• We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Country
  • Children

• I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Responsibility
  • Scene
  • Roles

• I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad snored the whole time and kept me up. It wasn't that fun.

  

  Chandler Riggs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

  

  Bert Kalmar

• Journalism is a Darwinian process.

  

  Denise Mina