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'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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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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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
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I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
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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.
