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.Mark Billingham
Quotes to Explore
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
Carine Roitfeld -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
Patrick Kane -
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.
Gabe Newell -
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.
Rachel G. Fox -
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
Beck
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren -
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
Garry Wills -
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.
Tariq Ali -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang -
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
Laura Carmichael
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver -
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Ingmar Bergman -
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.
Rachel Boston -
There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti -
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland
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In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
Burt Rutan -
We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.
Matthias Schoenaerts -
Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the corner with spiders building nests in his hair, and he hasn't bathed for three weeks, but for whatever reason, he's more creative than the guy sitting next to him that's showered and is talking to everybody.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.
Douglas Trumbull -
'Think,' I told him, 'what may be waiting for you. You may discover the meaning of Spirit. You may open up a new world, as rich as the old one, but imperishable. You may prove to mankind their immortality and deliver them for ever from the fear of death. Why, man, you are picking at the lock of all the world's mysteries.'
John Buchan -
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.
Mark Billingham