Denise Mina Quotes
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.Denise Mina
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
Victoria Clark -
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston -
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
Kate McKinnon -
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Barry Humphries -
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving -
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
Kate Forsyth -
We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
Zach Woodlee -
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll -
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
Mahesh Babu -
There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
Harriet Harman
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E. Y. Harburg -
Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.
Ellen Key -
Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.
John Zorn -
I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
Ed Harris -
A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.
Mary Steenburgen -
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
Denise Mina