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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I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
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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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They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.
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And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
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My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.
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The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.
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Journalism is a Darwinian process.
