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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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
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I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
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More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
