Malorie Blackman Quotes
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
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Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
