Denise Mina Quotes

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

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• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • You
  • Cheers

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moral
  • Rich
  • Instincts

• Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Social
  • Parties
  • Introvert

• In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

  

  Flume
  • Different
  • Home
  • Feel

• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Captain

• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Best

• I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Hair
  • Choice
  • Days

• Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Science

• Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

  

  David Walton
  • True

• What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

  

  David Brooks
  • Family

• The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Family

• I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Mom

• If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Rock

• There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Time
  • Feeling