Mark Haddon Quotes
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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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'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
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I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I did not stay at the 'Today' show because of money. I think there are other ways to make money.
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I really love animals and enjoy working with them.
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I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
