Denise Mina Quotes
I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!
Quotes to Explore
-
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
-
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
-
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
-
I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
-
One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
-
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
-
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
-
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
-
When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
-
Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
-
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
-
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
-
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
-
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
-
E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
-
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
-
My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
-
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
-
There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes!
-
I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
-
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
-
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
-
When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
-
I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!
