Matt Haig Quotes

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.

Matt Haig

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I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

Max Muller

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You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

Jeanette Winterson

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Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor.

Steve Prefontaine

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As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Robert A. Dahl

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In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

Mickey Rourke

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I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.

Mike Dean

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Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Miriam Margolyes

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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.

Jon Lester

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Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Chris Rock

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I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.

Box Brown

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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Anne Rice

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I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Peter Gallagher

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