Mark Billingham Quotes
I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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It's a winner-take-all world.
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Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians of the Right, libertarians are just as convinced that their ideas have yet to be tried and that they would work beautifully if we could only just have a do-over of human history.
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If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
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My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.
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I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
