Mark Billingham Quotes
Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'
Mark Billingham
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
Joanne Rowling
There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Oswald Chambers
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
Aaron Neville
You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.
Lauren Cohan
After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
Nelson Piquet
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
Kathleen Norris
Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
Fleur East
Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'
Mark Billingham
