Michael Morpurgo Quotes
But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.
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North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.
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I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.
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Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?
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I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free...I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.
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The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.
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There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.
