Mark Billingham Quotes

When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the rest of the day off. I do think that it can be overdone, however.

Mark Billingham

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I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

Jenny Eclair

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I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

John Cho

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When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.

John Ortberg

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I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.

John Shelby Spong

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There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

Trey Gowdy

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If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

Matt Bellamy

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We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.

Josh Silver

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I want to be someone for young girls to look up to, for fathers to want their daughters to listen to me because I'm not rude, and I'm actually talking some sense.

Jorja Smith

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I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

Clive Thompson

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