Mal Peet Quotes
I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.Mal Peet
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
Bear Bryant -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson -
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
Zara Phillips -
My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
Malvinder Mohan Singh
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope -
I don't have business with any politicians.
Carlos Slim -
I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
Rachel Nichols -
You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
Ian Somerhalder -
I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
Edgar Wright
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
Ralph Boston -
Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
Dan Levitan -
I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
Felicity Kendal -
'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
G-Eazy -
It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
Naomi Watts -
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
Karl Pilkington -
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
J. D. Vance -
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
Victoria Hanley -
I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.
Alice Merton -
I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
Mal Peet