Famous Quotes
"We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles."
More quotes about Food
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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
Oscar Wilde on Food -
"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
Ronald Reagan on Food -
"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."
Ronald Reagan on Food -
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
Yogi Berra on Food -
"Beware the hobby that eats."
Benjamin Franklin on Food
More quotes by Denise Mina
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"Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone."
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"In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents."
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"Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job."
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"I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny."
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"I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in."