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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Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
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I'm doing a good job in Washington.
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Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.
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I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?
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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.
