Malorie Blackman Quotes
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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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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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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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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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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It is still on the front burner. We really have to get the story right. The story has to be really good for any of us to do it, and there are three pretty strong-willed creative minds involved in saying yes.
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But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
