Mal Peet Quotes

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Mal Peet

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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

Harlan Coben
- Book
- Guy
- Change
I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.

Ike Barinholtz
- Shows
- Down
- Favorite
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

Magdi Yacoub
- Interesting
- Grow
- Flowers
I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

Barbara Bush
- Good
- Great
- Important
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

L. Lionel Kendrick
- Control
- Choices
- Wise
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

Tavis Smiley