Mark Billingham Quotes
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I don't like attacking.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
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The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
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I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
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I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.
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You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.
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People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.
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You never want to be caught off guard on the red carpet.
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I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.
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More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
