Mark Haddon Quotes
Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I really just want to go to a team that really wants me and wants to use me the right way and make me successful.
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We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.
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The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
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Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
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Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
