Mark Haddon Quotes

Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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LivePeopleMeSomeoneAlienWrite

I don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.

Joanna Coles

LoveChangeTimeDayMeUnexpected

I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.

Jeremy Corbyn

BelieveOwnershipI BelieveNever

The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

Andrew Shue

GoodBestMoneyThinkingImpactYou

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

John Oates

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I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Jeff Sessions

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At its root, 'quit' means 'to set free' - think of an acquittal in a court of law - and to quit is often to be liberated.

Steve Rushin

LawFreeThinkQuitCourtMeans

Some places that I have been, I have brought a token or some home from different places I have been. Some of them are around the house, and some of them are tucked away safely.

Milo Ventimiglia

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I don't see it as a bad thing that I surround myself with edgy people. Because they're interesting.

Milo Yiannopoulos

MyselfPeopleInterestingBadEdgy

It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.

Jason Blum

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I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there's reverberations, consequences. That's what I'm interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.

Derek Cianfrance

WorkLovePassionPeopleChoices

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

David Soul

EducationMusicJobPeopleMeFirst

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

Colin Baker

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