Mark Billingham Quotes

I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Think
  • Look

• I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Good
  • Growth
  • Goal

• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Loneliness

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • End
  • See
  • Special

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Party
  • System

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
  • Nobody
  • Through

• I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Space

• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Courage
  • Go

• Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

  

  Philo
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

  

  Anthony Pratt
  • Important
  • Done
  • Business

• It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Difficult
  • Over

• When I read 'Rocky V,' it was a terrific story, a great script. Rocky died at the end. He has this devastating fight with Tommy Gunn, ends up in an ambulance with his head in Adrian's lap, and by the time they get to the hospital, he's dead.

  

  John G. Avildsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Character