Mark Haddon Quotes
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.
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I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
