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When I first signed schoolboy forms for United, as a midfield player, I felt for a while that I was just treading water. Mark Hughes

Water First Signed Schoolboy Felt Just While Midfield Forms United Treading Player

All the major sports have video reviews, and for some reason, the Premier League, which is watched all around the world, is still in the dark ages. Mark Hughes

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At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way. Mark Hughes

Attacking football is what I want to watch as a manager; it's what I want from my teams. It's easier to be destructive and get people behind the ball than to be constructive and creative. Mark Hughes

Creative People Easier Destructive Constructive Attacking Football Ball Than Get Manager Behind Want Teams Watch

I've never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players. Mark Hughes

Myself Distance Tried Never Between Artificially Create Players

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done. Mark Hughes

You Happy Sometimes Important Important Things More Park Because Done Things

My job as a manager is to get the best out of your players. Sometimes you get it wrong, and you won't get the response that you want, but we all face that every single day. Mark Hughes

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I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London. Martin Evans

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When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period. Martin Evans

God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel! Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it! Mary Balogh

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Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan! Mary Balogh

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I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book. Mary Balogh

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I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for? Mary Balogh

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I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control. Mary Balogh

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I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write. Mary Balogh

Think Someone Write Writer Never How Any Teach

Everyone writes differently. I hope to get people energized so they'll want to rush home to write. Mary Balogh

Hope Home People Everyone Rush Write Writes Get Want Differently

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