Malorie Blackman Quotes

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

Malorie Blackman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 8, 1962

Topics

TeacherHistoryMeSayingBlackYou

How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.

Joe Gebbia

TechnologyThinkDesignDoingYou

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Joan Fontaine

MarriageBirdDeadInstitution

Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.

Mel Gibson

MarriageProblemsEverybody

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

Robert Gottlieb

LoveBookFalling In LoveFalling

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

Steve Buscemi

SchoolHigh SchoolYearActingHigh

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

Stephan Jenkins

YouCastlesOwnMakeYourKingdoms

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

Tom Hollander

ActingJustRubbishCaseAbout

In 'Deadwood,' it was just extremely unaesthetic. They actually put underarm merkins on and covered me with dirt!

Robin Weigert

MeDirtJustActuallyCoveredPut

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Rose Macaulay

TimeBookBetterDeadWhoLike

I long ago realized it was not a figure of speech when people come up to me and say they grew up watching me since they were 'that big.'

Roy Clark

PeopleMeSpeechLongSayWatching

I just don't ever want it to be nice. I'd prefer someone had a violent reaction to my collection than ever call it 'nice.'

Jonathan Anderson

SomeoneBe NiceNiceWantReaction

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

Donald Davis

I AmLivingStorytellingHowAm

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