Mark Billingham
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I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'... MARK BILLINGHAM Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... MARK BILLINGHAM It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to... MARK BILLINGHAM The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because t... MARK BILLINGHAM There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reade... MARK BILLINGHAM I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley... MARK BILLINGHAM Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or... MARK BILLINGHAM In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was... MARK BILLINGHAM My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. 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To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be th... 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
To be, or not to be: what a question! 
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there ... 
Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin... 
Dare to follow your own paths.
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you... 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at b... 
I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie... 
And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a... 
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your... 
In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does... 
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to... 
There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest ... 
If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo... 
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... 
With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: t... 
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. 
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. 
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... 
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... 
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right... 
I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, &... 
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstan... 
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... 
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea... 
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... 
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. 
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A nove... 
When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your ar... 
Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's y... 
If you are playing in 'Charley's Aunt,' and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you... 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens ... 
Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. 
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctua... 
While your intentions may be good, this is something every expectant working mom fears - being phase... 
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of i... 
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... 
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi... 
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... 
One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're... 
You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to conv... 
If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy with... 
The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes 
Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline... 
Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of t... 
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. 
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony... 
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... 
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... 
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... 
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... 
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... 
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. 
I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... 
There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... 
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... 
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... 
We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to... 
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... 
In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi... 
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ... 
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. 
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... 
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... 
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ... 
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th... 
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi... 
We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”