Mark Billingham Quotes
If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Music is my release.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
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The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
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If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
