Mark Billingham Quotes
I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Employees don't need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and understanding.
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I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond, away from our daily hectic schedules.
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I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
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I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
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You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
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I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
