Malorie Blackman Quotes
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
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California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.
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How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
