Matt Haig Quotes

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

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• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Just

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Research

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Young

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• People want you to fail.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Feelings
  • Everything
  • Hurts

• I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Think
  • Best
  • Ever

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• You’re the vodka I drink every night but I don’t ever get drunk. You’re the knife turning in my heart but I’m way too numb. When did you stop trying, when did I become so comatose? If love’s a drug, I wish I that I could overdose.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • You
  • Stop
  • Knife

• People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sex

• You have to teach your algorithm what it can do and what it cannot do because, otherwise, there is a risk that the algorithms will learn the tricks of the old cartels.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Risk

• It's thriving, responsibly regulated business that does the research and development to provide the tools as well as the means to a better country.

  

  Anna Soubry
  • Country
  • Business
  • Development

• How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Trying
  • Stop