Mark Billingham Quotes

Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.

Mark Billingham

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I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

Jim Lampley

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Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.

Joe Jonas

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Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Joe E. Lewis

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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

John C. Crosby

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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

John McDonald

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I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

Anita Baker

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A big part of becoming a funny person was a major defense mechanism. Onstage, especially as a woman, I've had to be really tough. The second you show a crack, the audience can literally leave.

Amy Schumer

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I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.

Simon Toyne

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Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Tom Paulin

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We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.

Lobsang Tenzin

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The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

Jonathan Evison

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One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.

Chen Guangbiao

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