Mark Billingham Quotes
I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.

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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
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Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
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Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
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I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.