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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	When you’re not able to move around, do athletic movements for a while, the only thing you can do is just shoot spot-up jumpers. I guess that was the result of that.   
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	Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.   
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	I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.   
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	You might think otherwise, but it doesn't naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented.   
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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.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					