Denise Mina Quotes

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

Denise Mina

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I think a lot of people might've and probably did have the idea of renting clothes before me. I was the only one who was crazy enough to attempt it.

Jennifer Hyman

PeopleMeCrazyThinkClothesIdea

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

FearFatherSonDeathDrivingHard

We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.

John McCain

WorkTogetherPrioritiesKnowWill

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

John McWhorter

PeopleWritingAwayCodeArticles

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

John James Audubon

GodHeartGratefulMountainsCity

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Max Frisch

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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Ang Lee

PeopleThinkMoviesCircumstances

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

Rony Abovitz

PeopleAmazingDoingYouWillNeat

I was born to be champion of the world.

Roberto Duran

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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Martin Puryear

WorkChanceAccidentIdeaFormToo

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

Mindy Kaling

ShortYouWantSafeSawFour

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