Matt Haig Quotes
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
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I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.
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Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.
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What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.
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I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
