Margaret Mahy
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ROBINSON We talked a lot about mechanics. Being tall, when something mechanical can go wrong, it goes wrong i... MATT THORNTON RICHELLE MEAD I was discovered in a shopping centre! ALYSSA SUTHERLAND I would think that he knows that when he came off the mound and was saying the things he was saying ... FIELDIN CULBRETH FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY ELIZABETH GASKELL He was putting too much pressure on himself. Instead of just being the best Dave Bullock he could be... BOB HURLEY We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in th... KURTWOOD SMITH He would be deliberately embarrassing, just to get a reaction. Wherever he was, he acted as though h... DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN THOMAS HARDY THOMM QUACKENBUSH ALEXANDER POPE Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me? JOHN SHORT MARY CABLE LAUREN MYRACLE SCOTT STABILE SIGMUND FREUD The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o... BILLY BRAGG He (Ralph) was always quiet and never the showy type who draws attention to himself. But that made p... BOB BARTON GEORGE BERNARD SHAW TAMMARA WEBBER Being unemployed, Kurt set in motion a routine that he would follow for the rest of his life. He wou... CHARLES R. CROSS I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was,... ELENA FERRANTE I just want to be able to make things happen whenever he (Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy) calls on me.... STROMILE SWIFT SIERRA D. WATERS W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Everybody has their downfalls. Everybody does things that they regret in life and he was trying to g... ADRIAN BROWN PEYTON MANNING He was an extraordinary man of impeccable character, integrity, honesty, compassion and fairness. He... ART MODELL REESE WITHERSPOON I like David. He's just a nice guy, but it was probably time for a change, ... He did a good job, an... DAN POST ROBERT A. HEINLEIN David Arroyo was at that time ... a very happy man because he had his family with him. He always tal... LUIS CORREA Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. ... GUY SPIER TINY TIM He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had re... CARL BERNSTEIN, BOB WOODWARD What was he thinking falling in love with her again, opening himself to another world of hurt when s... LEAH BRAEMEL PATTY JENKINS When he did get out, he talked to me and told me he did want to do right and apparently it didn't ha... GAIL SOUTHERS RICK RIORDAN On the surface it's this elaborate story of a writer doing all sorts of things to complete his maste... BENNETT MILLER He never talked about himself. He was always trying to do for his community. JAMES WATERS My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always c... TOM PARKER BOWLES DONALD MILLER GEORGE CRABBE We want to keep bringing really good young players into this club and Curtis is one of the most outs... BRYAN ROBSON He was a long and skinny individual like myself, and I tried to emulate some of the things he did. D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, h... MONIQUE ROFFEY I've talked to some of these convenience stores that do like this touch play because they say it bri... TOM HANSEN In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things whic... LEE KONITZ ANNE RICE CHARLES DICKENS Even my girlfriend told me I was crazy. Who in their right mind would want to set up shop in the sma... ADAM MEYER ARCHIE GRIFFIN HILARY MANTEL I've been telling him for a couple years that I would like to see him spread his stance out. He trie... TERRY PENDLETON There's still some growing pains to go through and some things he needs to work on himself like we a... KAREEM MCKENZIE W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He tried to shape in his mind what he had to say to McDonald. It was a feeling; it was an urge that ... JOHN WILLIAMS It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like that. We m... MARILYN ADAMS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN He's got bigger and better things to plan for, like college and his career. I don't want to say he q... BRENT COLEMAN We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right n... JOE WHITE He was very quiet, we would get on him a lot about yelling more and being more vocal (early in the s... DANIEL CROPPER RAY BRADBURY We talked a lot about the ways things unfolded in Phoenix the last couple of weeks. He encouraged me... BRYAN COLANGELO We want somebody the public recognizes when they walk into a restaurant. That doesn't mean that Paul... CAROL ROBINSON I feel like he felt like he was in a situation and had to get things off his chest, TONY YAYO We don't accept panic buying from our customers. Let's say there's a customer that normally buys one... JEFF MORRIS LOUIS L'AMOUR He was in a place where nobody would have found him for days. CAROL ROEGNER We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I ... CHARLES PHILLIPS I was thinking about not buying things, but then I needed to buy stuff. ALEX SANCHEZ JENNIFER NIVEN KIRAN DESAI I fell in love with him. I really did. And he was the smartest man I'd ever met. I mean, he was this... HEIDI FLEISS (Coughlin) had about six things going at one time. He was up (in the church) involved heavily, and h... BILL LILLY PEARL S. BUCK I was surprised, because he came in here and signed up nonchalantly, just like a regular client woul... NATHAN BROWN ERIC HOFFER The way he carried himself on the field, the little things he did made a difference in what his pitc... MIKE SCIOSCIA He was a bit mad I think. He would go hunting with machine guns and things like that. He was an odd ... NICK MCCARTHY [Other things upset Paul, like the cover featuring the black American revolutionary Angela Davis.] I... HARRY THOMPSON BRIAN MOORE He loved to do great things for people he loved. He would do these little things for people that wou... CINDIE BLOOM He's physical, which I think fits right in down there. He treats you like a man and is a guy you wan... JERAME TUMAN ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He was a smart guy, no doubt about it. He didn't always use his head for the right things, but he wa... BRUCE NORRIS
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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... 
You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in ... 
[He] stopped long enough to remind himself that this baby innocent was neither babyish nor innocent ... 
He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. Th... 
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha... 
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private r... 
Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less dir... 
Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back ... 
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire 
The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life a... 
So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we... 
He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for b... 
Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even... 
A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all thin... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just b... 
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know t... 
Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And tha... 
[And his leading lady echoes that observation.] American men don't want to do comedy that makes them... 
There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger a... 
I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority ... 
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he foun... 
Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minute... 
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... 
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide. 
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in th... 
He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-br... 
What most people don't know is all the good things that the coach did without anybody knowing. For i... 
He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More o... 
He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he ... 
Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. ... 
When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a l... 
All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a... 
In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed... 
He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself cou... 
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation fr... 
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with t... 
And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last jud... 
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ... 
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. 
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. 
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An... 
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. 
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. 
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. 
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son... 
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ... 
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. 
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? 
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. 
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. 
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ... 
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh... 
There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing... 
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ... 
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w... 
It was better to know the worst than to wonder. 
My dear, I don't give a damn. 
So you are a vampire."
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. 
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. 
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,... 
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. 
It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st... 
You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev... 
There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot... 
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ... 
Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. 
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ... 
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g... 
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. 
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. 
Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi... 