Denise Mina Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Attitude, Animal, People

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• A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

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  Men, Thinking, Purpose

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• If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

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  Jobs, School, Law

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

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• My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

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  Class, Parent, Odd

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

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• I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

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  Hate, Confused, Spring

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

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  London, Grew Up, Feeding

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• I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

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  Thinking, Different, Film

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

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  Sophisticated, Enough, Reader

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