Mark Haddon Quotes

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

Meek Mill

ThinkPhiladelphiaBeenShotI Think

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

Maxine Peake

FixSomethingLikeOnceReally

Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.

Steve Blank

WorkTimeTeamRunHardLeave

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

Steven Wright

LiveEndStreetDeadGotSure

I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be fair, the last there. Megan Smith left, Claire Hughes Johnson, vice presidents at Google left.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Mike Nichols

ServiceComedyYouMoviesReason

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

Judd Gregg

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Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

Christina Aguilera

Getting OlderYouWantSingJust

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Sergio Aragones

WorkGriefSadnessThoughtTrain

I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend's young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.

Ren Ng

FriendDaughterImpossibleLoved

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

Mario Lemieux

MeBackPlayThroughPointGone

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Marshall McLuhan

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