Mark Haddon Quotes
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I started out doing musicals.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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We have to be about finding long-term solutions to our biggest challenges.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
