Mark Haddon Quotes
I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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To survive is to win.
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Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.
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New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.
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My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.
