Mark Haddon Quotes
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.Mark Haddon
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk -
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
Barry Diller -
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier -
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
Caity Lotz -
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen -
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
Zach LaVine -
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
Kangana Ranaut -
Dead men tell no tales.
Haniel Long -
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
Gary Bettman -
If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
Yehuda Berg -
It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
Adam Driver -
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
Zach LaVine -
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
Talia Shire -
I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.
Jim Crace -
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results.
Hamilton Holt -
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
Mark Haddon