Malorie Blackman Quotes
Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
