Denise Mina Quotes
In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov
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I hate birthdays.
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We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values.
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The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
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We will bring a comprehensive plan to the government to assist you in every way. There is no room for racism and discrimination in our society, none... We will turn racism into something contemptible and despicable.
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In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
