Margaret Mahy Quotes
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
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When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
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New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
