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.

Mark Haddon

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Right
  • Got
  • Hipster

• 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.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Believe In Yourself

• 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.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Greatest

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • History
  • Me

• The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Risk
  • Ability
  • Happen

• No one is India.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • India

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Door
  • See
  • Key

• 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.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • War
  • Tired

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Air
  • Successful

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Never

• Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Music
  • Education

• I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Hope

• I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

  

  David Rabe
  • Environment
  • Professional
  • Teamwork

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Experience
  • Depression
  • Normal

• I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Depression
  • Mood