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Mark Billingham Quotes

I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.

Mark Billingham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 2, 1961

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Good Business Forward Thinking Die

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.

Life Job School Me High School High

In a well-run tech company, small, elite groups who have ownership in the company are given the freedom to define and achieve their tasks in line with a broader mission that they have internalized as their own.

Freedom Small Ownership Mission Line

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

Time Illusion Important Comforting

If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

Life Curious Me Ending My Life Play

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

Future People Possibilities Wealth

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

Me Story You Know Inside See

The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.

Life Myself People Selfish My Life

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

Words Loved Kid Always Been Writer

Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's a great joke, but we can't do that. Okay, let's try the second joke. Oh, you can't do that one. But the third joke you can do,' and hopefully it will be great, but it will remind people of what the joke really was.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Great People Writing You Television

I've been told I have pretty big hands my whole life.

Life Hands Pretty Big Whole Been

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Death Purpose Effort You Know Talk

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

Age Man Rest Problem Doing Plan

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