Meg Rosoff Quotes

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.

Meg Rosoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 16, 1956

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That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

Jimmy Smits

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I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all.

Jennifer Sky

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There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.

Steve-O

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English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

Romeo Santos

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To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.

Mike White

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I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

Lisa Vanderpump

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No one gave a crap that I was the kid from 'Free Willy'. You're not in some wispy fantasyland where everyone's telling you 'yes' all the time, which happens a lot to actors.

Jason James Richter

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I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

Jonathan Powell

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'The L-Word' was such a great show because of the amazing writing and characters, but maybe because it was such a new concept, people couldn't pick up on it, but I think it was down to the dynamic characters and how well done it was.

Cobie Smulders

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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

Claire Tomalin

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When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.

Bret Stephens

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You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.

Susan Orlean

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