Michael Foreman Quotes
When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
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In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
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I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.
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I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.
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We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.'
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.
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When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
