Mark Billingham Quotes

I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.

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• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Music
  • Like
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• I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
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• I don't like piano solos.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
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• I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Acting
  • Looks
  • Big

• Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Excellence
  • Often

• We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
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• You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenge

• I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Movies are romantic fantasies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Romantic
  • Fantasies

• Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • People
  • Study
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• I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish.

  

  Iman
  • Love
  • Eating
  • Fish

• I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • School
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• It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Good
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Problem
  • Create
  • Potential

• If you need to tell your readers something … there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, it's plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere. So, she's handy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
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• Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People

• …British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Women
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• I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • Music
  • School
  • Band

• I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • May

• Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Honor

• You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

  

  John Newcombe
  • School
  • Friday
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• I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.

  

  Mark Billingham