Mark Haddon Quotes
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
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I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
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It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
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The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
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I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
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Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
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I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.
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Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.
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I love doing television series.
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B is for bestseller.
