Mark Billingham Quotes

You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!'

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• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Men
  • Community

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Newspaper

• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
  • Normally

• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Without
  • Cake

• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
  • Matter
  • Horizon

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • World
  • Travel
  • Chance

• I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Day
  • Always
  • Eating

• Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Know
  • Care
  • Impact

• I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Beautiful
  • Growth

• NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

  

  Christa McAuliffe
  • Up
  • School
  • Space

• Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.

  

  Andre Ward
  • High
  • Dad
  • Crying

• With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Women
  • Power
  • Community

• You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!'

  

  Mark Billingham
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