Denise Mina Quotes

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Future
  • Humanity

• Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Work
  • Long
  • Women

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Want
  • Style
  • Purpose

• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Language
  • Chinese
  • Stick

• I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Ashamed
  • Lady
  • Argue

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Leave

• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Administration

• The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Gun

• I guess music is very global.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Very
  • Global

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

  

  Bob Graham
  • Believe

• A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Spirit

• I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • World
  • Age
  • Career

• I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

  

  Denise Mina
  • World
  • Writing
  • Children