Malorie Blackman Quotes

I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

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• To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Commitment
  • Determination

• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Dream
  • Storm
  • Snow

• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
  • Traditions

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Want
  • Myself
  • King

• Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

  

  Earl Butz
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Colorful

• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Learned
  • Irish
  • German

• Parenting is tough.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Tough
  • Parenting

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • America
  • Law
  • Baseball

• The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • Soldier
  • Priority
  • Priorities

• I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
  • Child
  • Find

• A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes

  

  Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Child
  • Guitar
  • Notes

• I must be the oldest living child soprano.

  

  Kathryn Grayson
  • Child
  • Oldest
  • Soprano

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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