Mark Billingham
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He was very Machiavellian, he understood po... JERRY HELLER ANNE HECHE JOHNNY CASH PALOMA PICASSO DONALD TRUMP IRIS APFEL LAILA ALI I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t... FELICITY KENDAL CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting on... WAGNER MOURA He was real close to his family, his friends and God. He just wanted to help people. He had a very c... GARY MACE MERRY CLAYTON There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, ... WILLIAM PETERSEN FRANKA POTENTE NICK CANNON My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ... KRISTIN HAWKINS SIDNEY POITIER RUDY GIULIANI My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li... MICHAEL HANEKE ADAM SANDLER My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. DOLORES HUERTA TOM HOOPER I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ... SOPHIE B. HAWKINS BOB FELLER HUGH JACKMAN ATHOL FUGARD ERIC MCCORMACK My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio... OLIVIER MARTINEZ CAROL LEIFER He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE DOLPH LUNDGREN JO NESBO HOWARD SCHULTZ MARINE LE PEN I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in ... SUSAN FORD JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine... EDWARD ROMERO KARAN JOHAR He had paranoid delusions. But I have no doubt that Father Chevedden was accurate in what he describ... GEORGE MALOOF I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me. ALBERT GUBAY PETE TOWNSHEND ICE T LEONARD SUSSKIND ANNE SEXTON SIDNEY POITIER TONY VISCONTI SALMAN RUSHDIE DONALD TRUMP GLORIA VANDERBILT AMY CHUA KIRK DOUGLAS My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know ... LUPITA NYONG'O I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... JEFF KINNEY ANTHONY HOROWITZ I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 ... AMANDA BURTON I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali... NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. VONDA SHEPARD CARRIE FISHER JOSEF ALBERS It was a very hard battle because he had a lot of medical issues and side effects. He was very limit... DEBORAH FORBIS BEAU BRIDGES BRANDON LEE I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth... STACEY LEE TERRY WOGAN I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I ... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an... CAROLYN BYERS RUCH TRACY MORGAN B. F. SKINNER I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's ... TIFFANY TRUMP CHRISTIAN BALE DONALD JOHANSON JOYCE CAROL OATES JOHN UPDIKE CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ZOSIA MAMET ZIGGY MARLEY JOHN LE CARRE When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c... HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate ca... CURT SCHILLING My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY ADAM SANDLER My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age o... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY
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I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'... MARK BILLINGHAM Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... MARK BILLINGHAM It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to... MARK BILLINGHAM The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because t... MARK BILLINGHAM There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reade... MARK BILLINGHAM Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money ha... MARK BILLINGHAM I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley... MARK BILLINGHAM Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or... MARK BILLINGHAM In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was... MARK BILLINGHAM Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and cons... MARK BILLINGHAM I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue,... MARK BILLINGHAM More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective... MARK BILLINGHAM You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you ... MARK BILLINGHAM When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, bu... MARK BILLINGHAM What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough... MARK BILLINGHAM There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also... MARK BILLINGHAM Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.&#... MARK BILLINGHAM When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the re... MARK BILLINGHAM Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong... MARK BILLINGHAM I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was coo... MARK BILLINGHAM An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing. MARK MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ... MARK SHRIVER MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them. MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori... 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MARK GATISS MARK MCKINNON MARK TWAIN MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY MARK EDWARDS MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay... MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ... MARK GATISS MARK RUFFALO MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you. MARK MCKINNEY MARK ZANDI MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ... MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los... MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin... MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit... MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s... MARK RUTTE MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person. MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good... MARK STEYN MARK MCKINNON MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t... MARK HOPPUS MARK ZANDI MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th... MARK WATERS MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'... MARK FUHRMAN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK RUFFALO MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ... MARK RUSSELL MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK FRAUENFELDER China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ... MARK CARWARDINE MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out... MARK FROST MARK TWAIN MARK EDWARDS MARK RUTHERFORD MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK ZANDI MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles. MARK ZUPAN MARK LAWRENCE MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK UDALL MARK HADDON MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. MARK RUTTE MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an... MARK MCGWIRE MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will... MARK MCCORMACK MARK TWAIN MARK LAWRENCE MARK TWAIN
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... 
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... 
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... 
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w... 
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie... 
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di... 
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... 
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never... 
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my fa... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems... 
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... 
I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious t... 
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... 
My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go any... 
My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was s... 
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a to... 
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of... 
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... 
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... 
My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he ... 
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid... 
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his... 
I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w... 
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... 
Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe... 
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... 
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har... 
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... 
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven... 
My father was kicked out of the National Front. He does whatever he wants. It doesn't concern me... 
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... 
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. 
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn'... 
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot... 
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he g... 
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. 
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the b... 
My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Un... 
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... 
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... 
If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was... 
I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids... 
God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad ... 
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus... 
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. 
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I hel... 
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. 
I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different p... 
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig... 
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... 
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or no... 
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he ... 
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. 
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th... 
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although ... 
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatev... 
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man... 
My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared w... 
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... 
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. 
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ... 
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony... 
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... 
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. 
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... 
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... 
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... 
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... 
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. 
I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... 
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... 
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... 
We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to... 
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... 
In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi... 
Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel... 
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. 
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... 
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... 
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ... 
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th... 
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi... 
We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”