Denise Mina Quotes
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
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My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
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I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.
