Mark Billingham Quotes
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.
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When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
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Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
