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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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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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 -
I hate birthdays.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
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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.
