Malorie Blackman Quotes
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
-
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
-
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
-
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
-
The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
-
For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
-
What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
-
Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
-
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
-
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
-
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
-
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
-
How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
-
You can't get emotional about your work.
-
If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
-
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
-
You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
-
Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
-
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
-
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
-
Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
-
I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
-
What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
-
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
