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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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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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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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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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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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
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I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.
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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.