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Mark Haddon Quotes

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Home Enough Long You Television Go

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

Work Work Ethic America Say Humour

You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

Fashion You Country Up Behave Just

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

Time School Thought Loved Poverty

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Man Thinking View Comparison Within

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

Work Good You Artist Bad Interest

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

Jonathan Evison

Lens Big Use Material Often

Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

Me Wait Out Contract Behind Tried

But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not.

You Princess Broadway Show Still

There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.

Change You Know Want Talk Line

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.

Sleep Brain Night Wake Up Direction

If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person.

Richard Preston

Sick Person Healthy Air Drift Room

Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.

Amazing Singer Carpenter Her Just

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