Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Michael Morpurgo

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• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Sports
  • Anchor

• All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Mad
  • Instance
  • Headings

• It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Poetry
  • Self
  • Admitting

• But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Earth
  • Exist
  • Human Life

• The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

  

  Seth Godin
  • Steps
  • Admitting

• That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

  

  Amy Neftzger
  • Know
  • Learning
  • Admitting

• She does not know how to measure her life. When Sam was alive, she measured it through his love. She had always measured herself through the look in his eyes. She is afraid of admitting that to herself.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Love
  • Afraid
  • Measure

• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  

  Moshe Dayan
  • Blame
  • Population
  • Village

• I have a regular cleansing, toning and moisturising routine.

  

  Erin O'Connor
  • Routine
  • Cleansing

• I always start the day with a cup of hot water and lemon - I find it really cleanses and hydrates me. I have very sensitive, dry skin, so I have to be careful about what I put on my face. My must-haves are Dermalogica cleansing gel and L'Or De Vie Creme Riche by Dior, which is thick and nourishing.

  

  Eva Green
  • Sensitive
  • Cleansing
  • Nourishing

• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Start
  • Example
  • Independence

• But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Forever

• Truth does not demand belief.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Belief
  • Demand

• Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

  

  Carl Joachim Friedrich
  • Tolerance
  • Position
  • Himself

• Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Admitting
  • Cleansing