Margaret Mahy Quotes
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
Quotes to Explore
-
We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
-
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
-
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
-
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
-
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
-
I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
-
I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
-
I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
-
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
-
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
-
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
-
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
-
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
-
I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
-
It takes people a while to trust you.
-
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
-
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
-
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
-
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
-
I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.
-
For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.
-
Truth is life's most precious commodity.
-
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
