Mark Haddon Quotes
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.
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The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
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I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
