Mark Haddon Quotes
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
Mark Haddon
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
Natasha Leggero
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
Jack Dee
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
Natalie Zea
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
Caleb Deschanel
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
Lars von Trier
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.
Adora Svitak
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The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
H. P. Blavatsky
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.
Fab Five Freddy
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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
Octavia E. Butler
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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
Mark Haddon