Mark Billingham Quotes

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

Mark Billingham

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FamilyFatherAttitudeChildhood

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Joan Van Ark

IdiotYouVillageBecomeJokeMuch

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Joe Clark

TrainingToolsEnoughMediaBad

I lead a very conventional life.

Joan Didion

LifeLeadConventionalVery

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

John Berger

TogetherSelfNeverDogsBoredMust

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Jeanne Moreau

TimeAgingLookingWorryLookHide

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden

BasketballYouPersonImportantMore

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Alphonso Jackson

DecisionFastFinalAnalysisMove

When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.

Summer Sanders

TrainingEasyMissedWayEatOut

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

Tony Campolo

FamilyMeWonderForgetSayVote

No dessert. I don't do dessert.

Ronnie Coleman

Dessert

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Lori Greiner

BestLosingPeopleYouSometimes

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

Jonathan Groff

YourselfGiftYouGayKindOut

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