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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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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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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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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I love a guy that can be emotional and get in touch with his feminine side. It's really sweet. It says a lot about a man to me.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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That's the nice thing about being a live act. I can get the audience, but it's for the moment. It's like, 'Can I do it tonight?' And you can see when people like you. But on record - and with the pen - it's almost for all time. Really, a lot more thought has to go into it.
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Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.
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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.
