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.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • New York
  • Street

• 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.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Children
  • Night
  • Affairs

• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Like
  • Marvel

• The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Success
  • Better
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • People
  • Win
  • Saying

• Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Best
  • Ideas
  • Sense

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• 'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Record
  • Well

• 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'!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Man
  • Know
  • Woman

• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rise Up

• I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Name
  • Determined

• People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

  

  Bill Murray
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Opinion

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Stories
  • Write
  • Teenagers