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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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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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.
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So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
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Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of law.
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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.
