Mark Haddon Quotes
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.
Quotes to Explore
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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No one is India.
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I eat next to nothing.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.
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The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.
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I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.
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What makes me unique is that I'm normal.
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I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.
