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.
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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.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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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.
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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.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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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.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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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.'
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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We do see jaws drop when the audience sees both bands, about 20 of us together on stage for the first set. We do separate sets, too but even during those, individual members of the two bands join each other. It's a cross pollination if you will. Between us we have about 50 hits and we do nearly all of them. It's just a dynamic and fun show. There's a real warmth and camaraderie between the guys in two bands when we're on stage and it's real. I'm enjoying that.
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I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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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.
