Mal Peet Quotes

It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

Mal Peet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

Andy Serkis

CharacterDecisionPeopleSmallYou

We're all trying to live up to our personal codes, so we relate to people who we see doing the same thing.

Ron Livingston

LivePeopleDoingTryingPersonal

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Mike Leigh

OutFilmEveryEverPlaysFilms

If you have goals or aims in life, write them down. If you look at your goals every day, then it will encourage you to try your best in all you do, be focused, and stay determined.

Joseph Parker

LifeGoalsBestDayYouLook

Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.

Chirlane McCray

LifeMemoriesMeStoryLonelyHide

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

Bobby Vinton

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We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Arianna Huffington

SuccessFailureDecisionsSometimes

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

Antonio Conte

LifeTimeI AmGameCoachingWay

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

William Kingdon Clifford

GoodLiveResponsibilityManWorld

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

Susan Orlean

DogGatheringPossibleMoreHuman

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

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Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

Richard Dawkins

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