Mark Haddon Quotes
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.
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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
