Mark Billingham Quotes
I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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I have spent time in Mongolia, in China.
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I try to put as little stuff into my hair as I can, which tends to be the best for it.
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I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
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I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.
