Mark Haddon Quotes
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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You make your own luck by working hard, you know?
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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
