Mal Peet Quotes

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

Mal Peet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1947 - March 2, 2015

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If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Jim Cooper

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I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

John Eaton

LiveThinkSoundFirstModern

As we thought about how to help portfolio companies grow and scale while simultaneously supporting corporate discovery and experimentation, it became clear that we would need to collaborate with a technology infrastructure provider like AWS to help us build a platform for experimentation.

Meltem Demirors

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A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.

John M. Grunsfeld

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Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

Michael Bay

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I've seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night's sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices about what you eat the next morning, you're more likely to work out, you're more likely to get a better night's sleep the next night.

Tom Rath

WorkGoodMorningSleepResearch

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

Jason Schwartzman

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Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

Jose Andres

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If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.

Bradley A. Smith

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As long as every tournament, every year, you're getting better and better, that's all that matters.

Brooks Koepka

BetterGetting BetterYearLongYou

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

Bruce McCulloch

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Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

Pim Fortuyn

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