Mark Billingham Quotes
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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From Enve Composites to Bluehouse Skis, Utah companies are making breakthrough products for biking, winter sports, water sports and more.
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People love gentle larceny.
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I like to space out my work.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
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I think every school in the world should have a sports program.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
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If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.
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I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
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I was born in revolution.
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Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
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I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.
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I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
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I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know.
