Meg Cabot Quotes - Page 6

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• Lana looked at me like I’d just said I’d never watched Bring It On, or something.

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• Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

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  People, Perfect, Paper

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten”, p.345, Pan Macmillan

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• It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

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  Depressing, Mean, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait. Love, Michael.

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  Sorry, Waiting, Mia

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• Yeah,” Nicole said, her straw noisily hitting the bottom of her Gut Buster. “Well, I would have appreciated it if you guys had wrecked a little less stuff. Because my house smelled like smoke for months. And construction on the Tarantinos’ new garage starts at eight on the dot every morning, and it’s still going on, and you know how I get if I don’t have my full ten hours of beauty sleep.” “So that’s what happened to your face,” Cody said. “I was wondering.

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  Morning, Sleep, Eight

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

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  Running, Book, Law

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• No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly.

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  Mother, Niece, Taken

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• For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

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  Book, Character, Kind

  Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

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  Children, Unhappy, My Own

  "My family values" by Meg Cabot, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.

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  Taken, School, Wish

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• You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?

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  Relationship, Blow, Helicopters

  FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Mar 22, 2013

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• But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place-the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what's important isn't the size of a girl's waistband but the size of her heart-like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl's outward appearance, and into her soul-like Andrew.

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  Girl, Party, Heart

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material”, p.87, Harper Collins

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• My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.

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  Mom, Dad, Italian

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• This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

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  Athlete, Artist, People

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• I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do.

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  Nice, Book, Mean

  "Exclusive Meg Cabot Interview!". Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.

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  Thinking, Creative, May

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• I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.

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  Moving, Book, Writing

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

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  Teacher, Dad, Regret

  Interview with Joyce Lamb, www.azcentral.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

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  Strong, Character, Decision

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• I love jezebel.com for the latest on fashion, style, and celebrity gossip. I also love gawker.com for New York celebrity sightings, and galleycat.com and trashionista.com for book news.

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  Fashion, New York, Book

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

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  Drama, Character, Play

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• I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

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  Writing, Illustration, Used

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• I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

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  Notebook, Home, Kids

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

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  Writing, School, College

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• Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

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  Believe, Book, Writing

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