Meg Rosoff Quotes
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
Quotes to Explore
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
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For me, giving thanks is a sign of appreciation and gratitude that also brings about a deep sense of peace.
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Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
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While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
