Mark Billingham Quotes
What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.
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You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.
