Malorie Blackman Quotes
The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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What a curious power words have.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!
