Margaret Mahy Quotes

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

Margaret Mahy

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WorkIdeasReadingSomeoneYouDone

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

Jimmy Iovine

HappyDoingCustomerYouWrongTry

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert Louis Stevenson

GreatMountainSceneryKindNever

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

Roger Federer

LiveCoolYearBackTennisNeed

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.

Rosie O'Donnell

ChildrenI AmMeThinkParentGay

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Mary Roach

PressureClothesYouCaliforniaWear

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Michel de Montaigne

I AmSearchKnowWellAmFleeing

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.

Mindy Kaling

WritingWayTryOfficeYearsUp

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Judy Garland

Looking BackLookingSomeoneFinding

As we progress and become more like the Savior, we can strengthen every group with whom we associate, including families and friends.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ProgressFriendsGroupBecomeMore

Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

Jon Taffer

GreatDayExcellenceFootballFight

Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.

Clint Smith

HomeBlackProfessionalSeriously

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

William Irwin Thompson

ImaginationThinkingGenerationKarma

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