Mark Haddon Quotes
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
Camille Paglia
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
Zara Cox
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
T. J. Perkins
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
Dana Perino
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
Dan Levitan
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
Larry David
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
Patrick deWitt
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
Harold B. Lee
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Saint Patrick
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
Imran Khan
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
Katee Sackhoff
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Damian Lewis
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Webb
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
Harlan Coben
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
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That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.
Nicholas Sparks
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty
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I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
Philippe Petit
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When you work hard, when you believe in something, in the end, you will achieve something.
Claudio Ranieri
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Our government strives to create an independent and impartial judiciary that applies the law without bias or favoritism. And we are incorporating into our security forces all Iraqis who have taken up arms to defend their families and communities.
Haider al-Abadi
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Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon
