Mal Peet Quotes
In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
