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 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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Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.
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We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Journalism is a Darwinian process.
