Matt Haig Quotes

I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.

Matt Haig

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Art
  • You
  • White

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Tough

• My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Greatest

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Great
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Medicine

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• I am a private human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Human
  • Private

• The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Story
  • Difference

• I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.

  

  Mark Ronson

• Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.

  

  Brian Stableford
  • Writing

• Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Age

• I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • People
  • Music

• What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Interesting
  • Action
  • Soldier

• I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Past
  • Television
  • Option

• Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Balance
  • Depression
  • Demon

• I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Depression
  • Option