Mark Billingham Quotes

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.

Mark Billingham

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LifeCityMeGreenFeelWant

The most powerful Vietnam movie, to me, was 'The Deer Hunter,' which was more about what happened to the folks who went and about their relationships.

John F. Kerry

MePowerfulRelationshipsDeerMore

When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality.

John Mellencamp

PersonalityYouActingPlayTalk

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

Russell Banks

New YorkRoadHouseDownNewOut

The United Nations is here to provide global guidance and also to help with global frameworks and to set the policies right. But then, it's the member states who have to implement those policies.

Miroslav Lajcak

HelpRightGuidanceUnited Nations

At HSN, the experience we create are a significant point of differentiation.

Mindy Grossman

ExperienceCreatePointSignificant

The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

Lisa Kleypas

PeopleMeThinkKindGlassWay

Nobody in their right mind will even attempt or even think of leaving the European Union, because they will understand that it is not in their best interest.

Jose Angel Gurria

BestMindThinkNobodyUnderstand

Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that they need to use every opportunity given them to reach out in love. Schmaltzy and corny, I know, but it's true.

Delilah

LoveOpportunityLove IsPeopleKnow

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Chrissie Hynde

GuitarEnoughLongYouLookPlay

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

Bode Miller

PeopleThreeSameMedalsOutWho

I feel like I ask my fans to love themselves a lot, and and I do want people to love themselves. That comes from personal experience.

Anne-Marie

LoveExperiencePeopleFeelPersonal

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

Philip Roth

LifeHistoryFakeMy LifeDramaOut

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