"Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live."

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Source : "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

Denise Mina

#Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.”
“It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.”
“Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.”
“Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.”
“My legs tired, ain't your legs tired!? His legs ain't Tired! He Just... Tinktinktinktinktinktink, TinktinkTinktinkTinktink!! Just paperclips and Sparks everywhere!”
“Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”
“I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.”
“Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.”

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