Malorie Blackman Quotes
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
Quotes to Explore
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
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We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.
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People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.
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The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
