Mark Billingham Quotes
Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I don't get out to parties often.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
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The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.
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What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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'Washio' provides laundry and dry cleaning on demand. They pick it up, clean it, and return it within 24 hours - and often with a cookie. No more forgetting to pick up the dry-cleaning or wasting time in line.
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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
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I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
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Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
