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Mark Billingham Quotes

All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'

Mark Billingham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Hope Book You Actor Good Actor

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

Andrew Rannells

Me Off Nebraska Still Shake

I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.

Anderson Cooper

Girl I Can Stop Meet Nothing Never

Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the same reason ancient Scandinavians worshiped the sun: because they saw so little of it.

Sun Golf Short Mad Reason Same

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Simple People Think You Back Go

There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books.

Silence New York America New Top

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Religion Worry Done More Organized

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Family Democracy Learn Doing Go

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Truth Truth Is Strange Always Than

Sometimes with artists, I want to hear a few things before I buy the whole album.

Sometimes Want Buy Things Artists

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.

Art Past Man Yourself Doing You

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

Jonathan Franzen

Training Fun Book Trying Down Way

The Eyemo was heavy and could be noisy. Once, I was in an auditorium filming a speech made by Goebbels when, suddenly, it decided to emit a huge snarling sound. Goebbels froze, and hundreds of uniformed Brownshirts turned and glared at me in anger. It was not a comfortable moment.

Douglas Slocombe

Moment Anger Me Speech Comfortable

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