Mark Haddon Quotes
The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
Mark Haddon
Quotes to Explore
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
Isaac Hayes
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
Damian Lewis
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.
Sam Kean
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
Ira Glass
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In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Barbara Steele
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
Farooq Abdullah
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And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
Victor Garber
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
H. R. McMaster
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Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.
Dweezil Zappa
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People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.
M. E. W. Sherwood
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Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.
Jimmy Fallon
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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
Mark Haddon
