Mark Haddon Quotes
I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.
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The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike?
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.
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I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
