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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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.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.
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I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.
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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.
