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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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
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When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.
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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
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I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.
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To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.
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I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
