Denise Mina Quotes

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

Denise Mina

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My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

Jennifer Hudson

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From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

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People in the movie division hate the people in the cable group... Ultimately, you work for NBCUniversal, not Bravo or Syfy.

Steve Burke

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I believe that people generally want to be what we call good. They want to cooperate with people. They don't want to steal; they don't want to cheat. But everybody has a price. Everybody has an incentive.

Stephen J. Dubner

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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Mick Jagger

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Trump must've been an extraordinary father to have raised well-adjusted kids.

Mike Cernovich

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I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK.

Judy Blume

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Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Donald Trump

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Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

Colin Hay

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Soccer players in L.A. can kind of just walk the streets. They have bigger people to take pictures of. They see Sylvester Stallone walking down the street, I don't think they are going to want an Ashley Cole picture, to be honest.

Ashley Cole

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