Malorie Blackman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I ended the war a horse ahead.
-
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
-
I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
-
It's those damn critics again.
-
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
-
I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
-
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
-
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
-
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
-
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
-
I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
-
In life go straight and turn right.
-
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
-
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
-
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
-
Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
-
If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.
-
I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.
-
I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.
-
There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.
-
I do sincerely trust that the benediction that is always awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and patience, and cheerfulness, just like the happy flowers I so much love.
-
I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
