Mark Billingham Quotes

There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone.

Mark Billingham

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I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.

Joanna Coles

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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Jean Paul

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I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

Amber Tamblyn

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There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

Stephen Graham Jones

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I'm not up in the front office or anything; I just control what I can control: playin' ball and playin' the best I can play.

Rob Gronkowski

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I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Liya Kebede

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Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on crew for productions until 11 at night, from 12 A.M. to 3 A.M. I was hanging out with jazz musicians.

Joshua Henry

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I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.

Jason Kander

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You can't have your kayak and heat it.

Denis Norden

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I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

Chelsea Cain

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Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

Bobby Scott

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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Bryant H. McGill

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