Mark Haddon Quotes
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
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Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
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After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!'
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Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
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I think good books have to make a few people angry.
