Mark Haddon Quotes
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
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I don't do commentaries; I can't listen to them, either.
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When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.
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Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.
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While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.
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I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.
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When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
