Mark Haddon Quotes

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

Joe Paterno

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I started playing basketball so late, it just means that anything is possible.

Joel Embiid

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You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

John Cusack

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Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Andrew Greeley

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I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

Steve Scalise

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One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

Tom Vilsack

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There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

Roger Ailes

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

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The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.

Milana Vayntrub

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I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.

Chris Pavone

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As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

Clive Granger

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