Mark Billingham Quotes

As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'

Mark Billingham

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In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

Jitin Prasada

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I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

Jimmie Johnson

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The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.

Andrew Zuckerman

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These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

Andy Samberg

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Truly smart people and truly smart dressers share one thing in common: They make it look easy.

Rumaan Alam

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To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

Mary Oliver

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I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

Mitch Kapor

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The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.

Dietmar Hopp

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Growing up in the north of Holland, I had a healthy and balanced diet.

Doutzen Kroes

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Sunday nights are my favourite.

Debra Stephenson

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I'm not a very open person.

Dawn Richard

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I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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