Mark Haddon Quotes

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

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• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

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• I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

  

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• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  

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• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

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• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
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• The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

  

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• There is no better high than discovery.

  

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• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
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• I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

  

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• After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

  

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• It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

  

  Randy West
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• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

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• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  

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• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

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• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

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• My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.

  

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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

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• The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

  

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• I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

  

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• As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

  

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• I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.

  

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• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

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• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

  

  Mark Haddon
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