Mark Haddon Quotes

What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

John Barton

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Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.

Jenna Wortham

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I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother's house.

John Edgar Wideman

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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike

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If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

Jonathan Ive

ObstaclesDoingYouNewAnything

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Arthur Erickson

NatureLearningThroughOurPart

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Brian Mulroney

NameYouDoneThingsPrimeBecause

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

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Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.

Priyanka Chopra

WorkMeTelevisionNobodyProduction

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

Paul Stamets

NatureHealthUniqueAncestorsDozen

Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate.

Leila Janah

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The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

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