Mark Billingham Quotes
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
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I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.
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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
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When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.
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The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
