Mark Haddon Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.
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We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
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When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.
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I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
