Mark Haddon Quotes

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 26, 1962

Topics

PeopleNothingBeliefEverything

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

Jenny McCarthy

TalkingKnowMaybeAboutBasically

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

Megyn Kelly

PeopleLawIntellectualClassNever

I never wanted to make movies just for me. I want to make movies that people watch.

Jeff Nichols

PeopleMeWantMoviesNeverWatch

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

Sigrid Undset

MyselfSchoolResistanceYearsUp

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

Martine Syms

LifeWorkArtCultureI AmPeople

From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that. So it was very natural for me when I came to write the 'Prydain' books to sort of follow that direction.

Lloyd Alexander

KingMeDirectionLovedRemember

Metro Atlanta has virtually unlimited economic potential.

Jon Ossoff

PotentialAtlantaEconomicUnlimited

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.

Denis Leary

HomeNightLaughRememberReady

I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.

Donald Hall

MorningBackChangesWriteSheOut

NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.

Clive Cussler

FindingTryingHeritageLostGone

The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.

Preston Sturges

MomentLawTheatreCameraYouWill

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Norman Mailer

DanceToughBelieveBetterYouGuys

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