Margaret Mahy Quotes
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.
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Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.
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Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
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We knew we could fail; we just didn't think we would.
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It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.
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The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
