Mal Peet Quotes
Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
