Mark Billingham Quotes
All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I don't go out there and put on any sort of front for people. If I'm in a good mood, I appear in a good mood on TV, and if I'm in a bad mood, I just go out there and look like I'm in a bad mood.
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There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.
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I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.
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All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'
