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.'Mark Billingham
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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.
Harold Ramis -
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.
Ian Beattie -
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
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.
Victoria Osteen -
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.
Patricia Marx -
I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
Karolina Kurkova
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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?
Jaan Tallinn -
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.
Jackie DeShannon -
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
Rachel Joyce -
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.
Salma Hayek -
I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
Carice van Houten
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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.
Eddy Grant -
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Zooey Deschanel -
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.
Webb Simpson -
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
Pat Brown -
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
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It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.
Yeardley Smith -
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.
Thomas Sowell -
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton -
I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
Conor McPherson -
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.
Fisher Ames -
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.'
Mark Billingham