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.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
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.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
Karen Robards -
I was a tomboy.
Rachel Weisz -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
Nancy Reagan
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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.
Irwin Shaw -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky -
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.
Sam Kean -
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.
Ornette Coleman -
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.
Larry Wilmore -
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.
Walter Anderson
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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!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't want to become known as just a body.
Taylor Lautner -
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
Indra Devi -
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.
Najib Razak
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There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.
Jessica Simpson -
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
Lars von Trier -
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
Corazon Aquino -
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Upton Sinclair -
I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
Mal Peet