"Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids."

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Source : "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

Denise Mina

#Brother Quotes #Kids Quotes #Female Quotes

“It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.”
“I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.”
“For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.”

Source : Source: time.com
“I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But Im also very preppy naturally.”
“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.”

Source : "Rising Star: Christina Perri". www.seventeen.com. December 6, 2010.
“There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.”
“Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.”
“My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.”

Source : "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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