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Mark Billingham Quotes

When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.

Mark Billingham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 2, 1961

Topics

Stronger Crime Places London Write

When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.

Meg Wolitzer

Work Love Writing Control World You

Ideology has consequences.

Robert Greenwald

Consequences Ideology

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

Matthew McConaughey

Family Name Back Irish Branches Got

My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.

Jean Louisa Kelly

Family School New York Think Year

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

Steve Carell

Children Stupid Underestimate Kids

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Michael Jordan

Effort Night Go Sometimes Way May

Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.

Dimebag Darrell

Feel Down Play Up And Down Up Neck

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

Arthur Laffer

Tax Changes Two Economic Curve Idea

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

Rick Perlstein

Fighting Right Being Core Outcome

The Kimberley Process is not a perfect construct, and it is necessary now to re-double efforts to address its remaining shortcomings and strengthen its provisions.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Process Perfect Now Necessary

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

Marianne Faithfull

Light Myself Depression Trust Walk

In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.

Kiesza

Path Job Long Easy You Place