Mark Haddon Quotes

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

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• Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Different
  • Teenager
  • Very

• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Different
  • Small

• My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Different
  • Day
  • Crazy

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Knowing

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Friendship

• Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Different
  • Changes

• There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Different
  • Women
  • Culture

• My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Different
  • Independent

• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fall

• Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Art
  • Organization

• I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.

  

  Zendaya
  • Born
  • Nephew
  • Niece

• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Find
  • Need

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Years
  • Now

• I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not criticizing that - maybe it's a good thing - but I'm the same old person, so I take everything in stride.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Different
  • President
  • Strategy

• Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People

• I would love for TNT to run the whole season at one point. I don't think that'll ever happen, though.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm

• In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Book
  • Age

• I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Different