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People Quotes by Mark Haddon
- Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed…
- Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where…
- Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
- You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
- 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?…
- For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
- Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in…
- I think good books have to make a few people angry.
- I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of…
- Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
- A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos…
- I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the…
- 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…
- ...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings…
- ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a…
- And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part…
- He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory…
- People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
- Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or…
- Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're…
More People Quotes
- We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. — Pope Francis
- Whenever u get hurt from those people whom u love most don't blame them, fault is not their its your fault that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Most important thing in life is to keep moving irrespective of the facts that you r hurt u r broken or betrayed… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide