Mal Peet Quotes
I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.
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I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
