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Mark Haddon Quotes

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Myself Back Wall Being Against

I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.

American Remember You True Become

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that.

Amitabh Bachchan

Life People Hardships Poverty Cinema

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

Time Practice Parents Me Hockey

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

World Up Reasons Put Plenty

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

Deborah Harkness

Love Time People Long Long Time

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Christiane Amanpour

Past War Ten Years Years Just Zone

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.

Corneille Ewango

Training Waiting Inspire Generation

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

Music People Think Try Listen Our

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

Good Alone Bible You Smoke Lovely

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.

Good Opportunity Stand Up Border Now

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

Focus People Security Need See

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Interesting Questions Answers Destroy

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