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Mark Billingham Quotes

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

Mark Billingham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Reading House Through Up Books Grew

Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'

Home Travel Breakfast Country Want

The classical music world is so snobbish.

Music World Classical Music Classical

When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity.

Life Writing Friends Someone Vanity

When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.

Money School Small Grow You Create

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Best War Road Back Circumstances

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

Mikheil Saakashvili

Powerful Alaska See Cannot Most

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

Power World Run Games Industry Idea

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Present Living Actor Dead Natural

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.

Live Today You Late Why Clock

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music Light Geometry Sounds Optics

When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.

Arancha Gonzalez

Future Food Help Creating Head May

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.

Play Lead Discouraged Oklahoma Role

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