Mark Haddon Quotes
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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It takes two to speak the truth, - one to speak, and another to hear.
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That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.
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I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.
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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
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I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.
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Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
