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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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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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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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.
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Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
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One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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You have to learn how to take care of yourself.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
