Mal Peet Quotes
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.Mal Peet
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
Eddie Izzard -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan -
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
Dan Scanlon
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
Gary Bettman -
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder -
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
Bai Ling -
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi -
Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
Carl Levin
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
Macaulay Culkin -
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer -
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett -
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster -
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.
David Lange
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Hanif Kureishi -
Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.
Oprah Winfrey -
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -only those who have experienced it can understand it.
Albert Einstein -
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
Mal Peet