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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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.
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I sang the 'Kim Possible' song for their cartoon series 'Kim Possible'.
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I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.
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Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
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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.
