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Denise Mina Quotes

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

Denise Mina

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1966

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Brain Action Down Write Head Like

I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

Jill Sobule

Think Because Different Like Stories

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

John Burnside

Birds Go Now More Still Pesticides

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.

Joey Kramer

Money Now Used Records Made Our

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Ann Hood

Grief Beginning End Middle Plot

I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.

Sienna Miller

School Youth Most Boarding School

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

Rob Wittman

Health Great Sick Prevention Place

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

Roger Ross Williams

Destiny Prison End Odds Up Would

I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?

Mike D

Business Age Doing Kind Hip-Hop Did

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

Diane Ackerman

Courage Compassion Sacrifice People

When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.

Diedrich Bader

Work Time First Kid Him Out

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Dorothy Denning

Reality Violence Terrorism Cyber May

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

Arthur Cayley

Myself Best I Am Me Speak Think