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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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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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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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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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I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.
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I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
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I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.
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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.
