Mal Peet Quotes
When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.Mal Peet
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
Vanessa Mae -
Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber -
Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
I never thought I'd be an actor.
Zach LaVine -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
Dane DeHaan -
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
Adam Hasner -
I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
Halsey -
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
Fatos Nano -
Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
Jack Nicklaus -
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
Pamela Sargent
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne -
You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
B. Wayne Hughes -
The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
Naomi Klein -
There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Zoe Wanamaker -
I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
Randeep Hooda
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
Ian Frazier -
I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.
Mayim Bialik -
It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.'
Eric Burdon -
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman -
When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
Mal Peet