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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• I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Fun
  • Wish
  • Internet

• 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

• When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Focus

• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Hope
  • Memory
  • Evidence

• I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Trying
  • Things
  • Active

• Common sense is strengthened by joy.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Joy

• 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