Malorie Blackman Quotes

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

Malorie Blackman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildReadingPlaceImportantFirst

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

Jim Rash

StorySometimesJustIdeaExpense

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

Jim Sensenbrenner

DuckPlayPresidentFirstGoing

All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

Steve Erickson

SnowMemoryExtraordinaryMostFilms

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

Stephen Hadley

ThinkViolenceAbyssSeemsFurther

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Mary Wortley Montagu

BeautifulChildrenPeopleThinkPlan

Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

HomePeopleEndWeekYouCheese

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.

Louis Theroux

LifeAlwaysEmotionalSideArguably

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

Josh Hawley

ReligionGovernmentPeopleOpinion

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

FutureRespectPastSafetyPresent

'Fear the Walking Dead,' since its inception, has been a very inclusive show.

Colman Domingo

FearWalkingInclusiveDeadBeen

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

Christy Turlington

FriendTimeDoingPracticingStarted

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

Bridget Riley

FreedomFocusAttentionSpiritMore

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