Mark Billingham Quotes
I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
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I don't believe in luck.
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Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.
