Mal Peet Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
Yves Behar -
I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
Dan Colen -
I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
Felix Baumgartner -
I have a fearless but neutral personality.
Yani Tseng -
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham -
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida -
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov -
There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
Sam Trammell -
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
Washed Out -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
Patrick Lencioni -
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
Ed McMahon -
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
Katey Sagal -
I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
Yami Gautam -
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
Barry Unsworth -
In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
Nathan Fillion
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
Rachel Miner -
People that want to be in the tabloids will get into the tabloids. I just stay home and don't go out much. My personality is not an introvert, but that's how I am as far as going out to parties. I just stay in my house and hang out with friends.
Keke Palmer -
I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
Ralph Boston -
In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.
Queen Noor of Jordan -
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
Octavia E. Butler -
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
Mal Peet