Margaret Mahy Quotes

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

Margaret Mahy

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On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Joel Osteen

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The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.

Michael Gove

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We have good food in Los Angeles, but it's not as good as Atlanta food.

Storm Reid

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I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

Mary Gaitskill

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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Miguel de Cervantes

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We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

Louis R. Chenevert

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If you live in a yard sale kind of neighborhood - in good weather, most neighborhoods are crawling with them on weekends - do a sweep to see what the competition is charging. No one is going to buy your $7 book if they can get it down the block for $1.

Jean Chatzky

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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

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My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Dolly Parton

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The post area I had to unlearn. And yeah, now it's a relearning process. It's different. It's learning what works and what doesn't work.

Chris Bosh

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Confucius

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Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

Aubrey de Grey

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