Mal Peet Quotes
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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When I originally came from 'Cheetah Girls,' I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a disconnect there. I am a grown woman, and I've been through a lot. The most important thing about my music is that we don't jump the gun and throw anything out there.
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If we want to rediscover the radical message of Jesus and experience a reorientation of our lives, we must become willing to let go of whatever else might be getting in the way—even if that’s a religious tradition named after Jesus—and return to the timeless invitation to simply become a follower of him.
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When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.
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Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
