Mark Billingham Quotes

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

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• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Boyfriend

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Long
  • City
  • Rock

• I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Musician

• I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Things
  • Everyday

• My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mom
  • Compass
  • Nickname

• Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Important
  • Community

• I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Game
  • Idea
  • Writer

• If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Bad
  • Opinion
  • Everyone

• I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Child

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Outsider

• Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Wisdom
  • Unique
  • Sharing

• If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Mistake
  • Learn
  • Content

• My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Gay
  • Because
  • Queer

• I only entertain very close friends.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Friends

• Walking is man's best medicine.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Walking
  • Medicine

• Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

  

  Herbert Kaufman
  • Father
  • Son
  • Rich

• The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the media industry's response to the unlicensed content on the site.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Opportunity

• I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Truck

• In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

  

  Mark Billingham