Malorie Blackman Quotes
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
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I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
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I have a lot of energy. Energy's a very huge thing in our family. None of us need caffeine; we're just high-energy people.
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I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
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The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature. (p. 14)
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
