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 -
I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
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 -
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
Paris Hilton -
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 -
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
Florence Henderson -
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 -
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick -
No one is India.
E. M. Forster -
I eat next to nothing.
Karl Lagerfeld -
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
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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.
Hank Aaron -
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 -
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
Nancy Gibbs -
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 -
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde -
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
Victoria Wood
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable -
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
J. Anthony Lukas -
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.
Frans de Waal -
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