Mark Haddon Quotes
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.Mark Haddon
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
Nas -
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
Adam Oates -
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot -
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
Taufik Hidayat -
Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
Karl Schroeder
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
Indra Nooyi -
First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
Ted Williams -
I hate negative ads in general.
Ed Rendell -
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
Gary Coleman -
When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
Ian Mckellen
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
Oscar Isaac -
The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
Vik Muniz -
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia -
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
Yitzhak Rabin -
That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
Parminder Nagra
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Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.
Paul Nehlen -
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
Walt Disney -
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
Lord Byron -
When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.
Chrisette Michele Payne -
Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
Nabeshima Naoshige -
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark Haddon