Malorie Blackman Quotes

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Malorie Blackman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When I first started Lion Babe, I wore a lot of denim to perform in because I had a limited closet. A lot of the time, I was in cutoff shorts - either dark or light denim - and then I would pair them with whatever top I had.

Jillian Hervey

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Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses.

Mary H.K. Choi

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I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as therapy as I was doing my Ph.D. in device physics.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Mike Tyson

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I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.

Michelle Gomez

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It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

Jason Reitman

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We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

Don Bluth

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I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Dennis Quaid

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I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Dorothy Malone

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I was more active pregnant than I ever was not pregnant. I was doing Body By Simone five days a week. That definitely helped me shed the weight after giving birth. But it's all smoke and mirrors, too. People on Instagram forget that you're showing them what you want them to see. We have filters.

Chrissy Teigen

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I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

Christian Kane

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Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

Brooke Shields

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