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 just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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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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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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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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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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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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Los Angeles is a huge, great diverse place, but I had to find the version that worked for me. I am lucky I did because I probably wouldn't be where I am had I not.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
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But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
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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.
