Matt Haig Quotes
I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
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My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
