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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Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.
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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
