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Mark Billingham Quotes

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

Mark Billingham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Grief Death Writing Book Loss Year

An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure - would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.

Future Technology Energy Push Speed

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

Good Growth Walls Talent Capitalism

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Marriage Wife Questions Nothing Your

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

Good Been Improvise Failed Really

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

Character Walk Writing Building Look

When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.

Tony DiTerlizzi

Parents Loved Teachers Lucky Kid

My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember thinking, 'Oh my goodness, a lady runs this country.'

Experience New York City Amazing

I really feel that if you impose your will on somebody, eventually they'll break.

Feel You Will Break Somebody Your

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Saying Perfect Say Must Who Effect

Even before I had ever seen 'Beach Blanket Babylon,' I had a similar aesthetic: colorful and sparkly.

Beach Aesthetic Colorful Blanket

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

Family Childhood School Parents Me

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

People City New Suit Changing Who

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