Malorie Blackman Quotes

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

Malorie Blackman

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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Great
  • True
  • Crazy

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Emotional

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Red

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Up
  • Village
  • Houses

• Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • High
  • Media
  • Riding

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• 'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Down

• If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Up
  • I Can

• So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Play
  • Video Games

• I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy - ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha!

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • People
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need