Denise Mina Quotes

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
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  • Guy
  • Change

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
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  • Travel

• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Ideas
  • Enemy
  • Try

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
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  • Long

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Happen

• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
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  • Happen
  • Lottery

• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
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  • Early

• When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Real
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• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
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• In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

  

  Jack Keane
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• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
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• When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

  

  Yves Rossy
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• If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

  

  Walter Scott
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  • Farmer
  • Barn

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
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• Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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• I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

  

  Brian Behlendorf

• One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

  

  Dana Perino
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• 'I will show,' said Agesilaus, 'that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.'

  

  Plutarch
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• People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

  

  Denise Mina
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