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Denise Mina Quotes

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1966

Topics

Time Opinion Strong Person Position

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

Water Culture Ocean Space River New

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

Mirror Reflection Day I Am People

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

Love Home Children Broken Thought

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Women Beautiful Strong Women Are

I wanted to represent the brothas I have seen when I go to the rhythm section of Oakland, hearing brothas speak and tell me about their journeys. Men who have been to prison and found themselves, brothas who have made mistakes but are loving their wives and children, trying to protect them and educate them. These men do exist.

Russell Hornsby

Children Men Mistakes Me Speak Go

I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Waiting Shoe Always Drop Other Very

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

You Go Connected Sound Mean Mail

When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if not daily from publications and television shows who want to know what's hot, how to get started in antiques, and the best way to buy antiques.

Daily Best Television Phone Know

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

Jonathan Raymond

Work Job Writing Back Done Try

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

Home Day King Me Song Thought

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Childhood Decisions My Own Outside

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

Feeling Touch Always Pretty Been

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