Denise Mina Quotes

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

Denise Mina

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MenSchoolPeopleWarriorDownEven

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

Jim Irsay

MemoryNumbersPhotographic

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

John C. Calhoun

PositiveGoodPeaceI AmWarEvil

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

Jeb Bush

PeoplePersonalObsessionAboutLot

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.

Michael Chiklis

GreatWorldThinkWhyUpCollective

OK - we like to say how a striker creates space and influences matches in other ways, but let's not pretend: at the end of the season, the best striker everyone talks about is the top scorer.

Alvaro Morata

BestSpaceEndSayTopEveryone

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

Tucker Carlson

RulePunctualEstablishment

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Tom Perez

GoodEnvironmentalYouValuesChoice

Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.

Tom Tancredo

ChildrenLegalFriendsLaborKnow

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

Mick Ralphs

Los AngelesSan FranciscoLikeMuch

I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

Judith Tarr

TimeWritingInterestingBackReal

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'

Jason Ritter

I AmMePerformanceProudDoingYou

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Douglas Horton

FearActionInactionTerrorCures

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