Mal Peet Quotes

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

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• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Know

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Math

• Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Change
  • Human

• The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Same

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • World
  • Real
  • Training

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Mind
  • She

• You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • People
  • Deal
  • Computation

• All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Business
  • Team
  • Winning

• I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

  

  Mal Peet
  • People
  • Young
  • Lovely