Mark Haddon Quotes

The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

John Berryman

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I don't know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.

Angela Bettis

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I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

Amy Sherald

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I don't like feeling stuck, like I'm not going anywhere.

Ana de Armas

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The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.

St. Lucia

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When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

Robert T. Bakker

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To a crowd that loves improv, Robin Williams is like Chuck Berry.

Chris Gethard

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It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

Christina Aguilera

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Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

Chris Rock

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I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing.

Chris Stokes

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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

Bruce Nauman

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I'm not a gay rights activist.

ASAP Rocky

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