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Mark Haddon Quotes

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People Writing Forget Boring Seen

I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me.

McKayla Maroney

Me Difficult Out Shape Used Just

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

Music Moment Together Me Tears Way

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

Life Business Character Law Medicine

I want to punch everything and fight the world.

Fight World Want Everything Punch

Anything that is good influences the next thing. It's inevitable. I believe that Hollywood influences the comics, and the comics influence Hollywood - it's a cycle.

Good Influence Believe Inevitable

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

Great People You Movies Compliment

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Work Believe Feel Help Flaws Hard

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Curious Spring True My Own Own Been

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Today Know Christmas Celebration How

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

Words People Me Song Think Remember

In my view, it is unreasonable for EPA to exclude considerations of costs in determining whether it is 'appropriate' to impose significant new regulations on electric utilities.

Brett Kavanaugh

View New Significant Costs Electric

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.

Music Time Career Feeling Different

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