Mark Haddon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
-
Golf was never a religion to me.
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
-
Writers should provoke disagreement.
-
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
-
I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
-
I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
-
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
-
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
-
The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
-
E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
-
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
-
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
-
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
-
I think that people can relate to family. There is a person that watches the show because they want to see what I am going to create. There is a person that watches the show because they want to see my family.
-
There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.
-
Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.
-
I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.
-
It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.
-
I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.
