Mark Billingham Quotes

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

Mark Billingham

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The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

Robert Grosseteste

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Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

Ann Cotton

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You've got to have one of those guys on your ball club that, when you have runners on scoring position, you know that guy is going to drive the ball and put the ball in play and pick them up.

Rod Carew

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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

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My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.

Douglas Booth

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If you aren't a loser, you fight; you continue to fight, believe.

Claudio Ranieri

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I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Bruce Willis

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

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If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

Annabella Sciorra

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I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.

Alice Waters

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And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun.

Wink Martindale

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I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

Sean Bean

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