Mark Haddon Quotes
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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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.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
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The law doesn't create a right.
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
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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.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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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.
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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
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The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'
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Normally, Finns wait for a couple of years and watch Aki's films on television. But it is as though the international reputation of 'The Man Without a Past' caused them to go and see it at the cinema.
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It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
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The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
