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Mark Haddon Quotes

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Life Love People World Learn Find

Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important.

Health Focus People Think Pressure

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Work Focus Simple Mountains Thinking

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

Girl Heart I Am Me Writing Think

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

Technology Innovation Space Push

I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be down to the genes. We have a healthy body image in my house and great appetites. It'd be hard for you to find a food I don't love.

Life Love Girl Great Food Body

I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.

Think Professionalism Director System

Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.

Christine Ebersole

Life Car Time Past Think End

I've been a fan of Bob Odenkirk since he was on HBO originally with 'Mr. Show.'

Show Been Fan He Since Bob

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Work Moment Mind Brain Detail Rest

Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself; I have doubts.

Myself Stealing Performing Doubts

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

Job Energy Way First Things Big

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

People Know Movies Coming Going Who

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