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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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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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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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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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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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
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The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.
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New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
