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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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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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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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]
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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
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On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
