Mal Peet Quotes
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I was a tomboy.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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'Hook' was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up, so we played with that theme on the title 'Never Land.'
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.
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I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
