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Mark Haddon Quotes

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Laughter Book Think Laugh You

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

Jim Pattison

Good Competition Always Consumers

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

John Cheever

Remember Way Exit I Remember Heading

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man.

John Ortberg

Man Present Humanity New Him Single

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

Maurice Sendak

Name Idiot Controversial Tag Says

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

Jeff Tweedy

Sometimes Way Everyone Master Things

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Book Language Movies Same Because

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

Steve Capus

Perspective Focus Day Strong Evening

Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

Tom Vilsack

Job Think Thought Questions Security

Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.

Rodney Atkins

Funny Home Me Name Now Right

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Mike Huckabee

Nature Story Never Banking Something

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

Michelle Obama

Work Lunch Night Week You Way

The alt-right believes that Western culture is currently imperiled and that the elites on both sides of the political divide are not doing enough to protect it. In that analysis, I think they're right.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Culture Think Political Doing Enough