Mark Billingham Quotes
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
Mark Billingham
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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.
N. T. Wright
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
Adam Jones
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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.
Daniel Bryan
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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.
Jack Dunphy
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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.
Kate Seredy
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
Felix Baumgartner
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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.
H. G. Wells
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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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
Victoria Justice
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
Abagail Johnson
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
Wayne Coyne
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You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.
James Vincent McMorrow
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'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.
Amy Landecker
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Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.
Anthony Marra
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
Oscar Wilde
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
Agnes Smedley
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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
Mark Billingham
