Mark Haddon Quotes
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
Quotes to Explore
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
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A good leader must be fair.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?
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The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
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I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.
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Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
