Mark Haddon Quotes

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

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I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

Joel Osteen

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Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

John Darnielle

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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

John Eldredge

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I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

Jean M. Auel

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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Robert D. Kaplan

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I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched 'Saturday Night Live' religiously.

Rob Riggle

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One might think of investment managers as astronomers and CEOs as astronauts. The two roles are radically different with distinct personality traits. Like astronomers, investment managers tend to be introverted, skeptical, and very analytical. CEOs, like astronauts, are the exact opposite, typically being extroverts, optimists, and, well, leaders.

Mohnish Pabrai

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Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Jonathan Groff

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I only dance when I go out.

Diane Kruger

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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Douglas Coupland

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Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

Christopher Eccleston

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