Mark Billingham Quotes
Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I can paint in jail.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I don't get out to parties often.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
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'Flash Forward' was one of the big heartbreaks of my career. It was just this very frustrating experience. If we'd been allowed to tell the story we wanted to tell, I don't know that it would've been more successful or not. There's no way to know.
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When I was eleven years old, I basically looked the same as I do now.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
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The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.
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Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
