Margaret Mahy Quotes

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

Margaret Mahy

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AgeChildrenI AmWritingSmall

I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'

Jeffrey Toobin

GoodI AmWorldYouFindStudent

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Maya Angelou

MindThinkSearchYouSituationSay

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

John Hull

TimeSayingWeekLongYouPossible

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

Robert McChesney

CompetitionYouGotLicenseOnce

I think our big tent is our greatest strength.

Tom Perez

StrengthThinkBigGreatestTent

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.

Rodney Atkins

WorkHomeChildrenPeopleAmerican

But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

Roman Abramovich

ManagementProcessCharityHelpYou

All I ever know is what I want to do next.

Julia Holter

KnowWantNextEver

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

Lisa Loeb

ThinkI CanPoorMy OwnEverything

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Jonny Lee Miller

LookingSurpriseYouSatisfaction

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

Dmitri Mendeleev

FreeBelieveWillSpiritHumanOpen

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

Diane von Furstenberg

SchoolI AmWorldFeelAmericaBorn

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