Mark Billingham Quotes
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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We have so many issues in this country to focus on that worry us, that I question why there is such focus on the simple right of people to love whom they will.
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A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it.
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Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.
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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
