Denise Mina Quotes

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

Denise Mina

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I loved working on 'House,' but I never ever want to do another medical show. It's 'fiddly' stuff.

Jesse Spencer

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We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

Joel Salatin

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I believe in finishing what I start; not being able to do that makes me feel weak.

Mawra Hocane

MeStartBelieveFeelI Believe

I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.

Maureen Johnson

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I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.

Angie Harmon

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I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

Solange Knowles

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I often say to entrepreneurs, 'If Lehman Brothers were Lehman Brothers & Sisters, it wouldn't have gone into bankruptcy.'

Shinzo Abe

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Understanding how to compete better has really made a difference.

Michelle Carter

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I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they're just good, kind-hearted people.

Milo Ventimiglia

FamilyGoodFatherMotherPeople

I'm interested in form, in the shape of things. And in commitment to the degree of never letting go the quest for the meaning of things. That can come off as beauty and style, but that's not where I start from.

Luca Guadagnino

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In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

Jay Griffiths

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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.

Susan B. Anthony

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