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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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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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
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Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.
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I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.
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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.
