Mark Haddon Quotes
Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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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 like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Acting's boring.
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
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I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.
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My dream is to tour for 50 years.
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Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.
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Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
