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Mark Billingham Quotes

I read 'Jaws' and 'The Godfather' back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be.

Mark Billingham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Powerful Back Summer Fiction Aware

Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from the sciences to the arts.

Beautiful Black Rich Know Everything

As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.

Experience Woman Black Feel Media

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Poverty Crisis Africa Essence

I'm a Pisces - emotional.

I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.

Communication Relationship Think Any

It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

Character Memories Look Back Strange

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Communication Power Words Routine

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

Jonathan Ke Quan

Work School Amazing Looking Camera

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

Diane von Furstenberg

Woman Know Become Knew Wanted

I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.

Good Say Way Same Fiction Started

I've taken care of myself all my life.

Cloris Leachman

Life Myself Care My Life Taken

I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant.

Brant Daugherty

Love Time Long Long Time Brilliant

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