Margaret Mahy Quotes
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
Quotes to Explore
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?
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Not everybody who supports Donald Trump, not everyone who supports Hilary Clinton, are exactly the kind of people that you want as supporters.
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I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me.
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They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
