Mark Billingham Quotes
When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.Mark Billingham
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
Utada Hikaru -
I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
Tara Lipinski -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
Quentin Tarantino -
I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
Kate Baldwin
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
Rand Paul -
I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
J. K. Simmons -
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter -
Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.
Randeep Hooda -
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Ted Nugent -
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
Naveen Jain
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When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.
Rakul Preet Singh -
To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
Antonin Artaud -
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.
Arianna Huffington -
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
Margaret Mead -
People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.
Jana Kramer
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I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.
Albert Hammond, Jr. -
I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
Louis Theroux -
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.
Gautama Buddha -
When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.
Mark Billingham