Mark Haddon Quotes
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
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You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
