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Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: June 6, 1951

Topics

Me Library Think Thought You Go

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Person Thinker Because Consistent He

I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.

Ideas You Down Lost Forget Want

The original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of 'Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle,' in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave.

Family Son Law Black Born Sugar

It was nice working with a jolly team in 'Gangaa.' I was well-acquainted with the production team, which was same on 'Balika Vadhu.'

Team Nice Same Production Working

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

Family Music Rock Listen Up Were

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

Plastic Like Obsessed

I think there are a lot of outside interests that would like to see Sarah Palin in some form of elected office. Most in Alaska recognize our former governor is really not involved in or engaged in the state anymore, that she's moved to other interests.

Think Alaska She Office Outside See

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Children Language Tolerance Argument

Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself.

Character Freedom Yourself Doctor

It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.

Men Writing Hard Up Something Off

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Words You Say Possible Fewest

Oddly enough, Black Panther's almost like an analog to Tarzan.

Brian Stelfreeze

Black Enough Almost Panther Like

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