Matt Haig Quotes
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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Every moment is an experience.
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I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.
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You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.
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The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.
