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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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
