Matt Haig Quotes
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.
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I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.
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Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.
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The natural tendency of the market is to increase the scope of the social relations that it covers, because entrepreneurs see opportunities at the edge to turn what is not yet a commodity into one. Left to itself, the capitalist dynamic is self-sustaining, and socialists therefore need the power of organized politics to oppose it: their capitalist opponents, who go with the grain of the system, need that power less (which is not to say that they lack it!).
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The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person
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I reckon you have to put a presence in front of your opponent - a bit of confidence and attitude - and then you can change what their next move may be.
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It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
