Margaret Mahy Quotes

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

Margaret Mahy

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ChangeMeIdeasMoreOverHappen

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

Andy Hertzfeld

SmallAppleSilentFirstCostLow

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.

Tony Dungy

SonImpactSomeoneKnowSometimes

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

Michael Welch

PlayStereotypesNeverLiked

I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done.

Julia Holter

ThinkPlanDoneWayStorytelling

For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.

Jason Isbell

GoodPainPeopleMeThinkFlag

I'm definitely a seat-of-the-pants writer.

Deborah Harkness

WriterDefinitely

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Shakuntala Devi

MathematicsYouNumbersNothing

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

Seph Lawless

PoliceProtectFirstServeSupposed

I can't grow a beard.

Ty Burrell

BeardGrow

Who owns your body? You or the state?

Martha Plimpton

YouBodyYour BodyWhoYourState

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

Kristen Stewart

StoryPicturePicturesSayWant

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Jane Byrne

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