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You love someone, you've got to let something go.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.
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And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
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When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
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But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.
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You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
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I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
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Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
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I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
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