Mark Haddon Quotes
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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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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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Honest work is much better than a mansion.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
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Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
