Mark Billingham Quotes
It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
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If we're at a lunch table, I'm going to always sit with the girls. That's just kind of how I am. I always gravitate towards women. I know how to communicate with women.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.
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It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.
