Michael Morpurgo Quotes
I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
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They never fail who dieIn a great cause.
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But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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Topshop is the best. I don't know how I'd live without it. Most of my clothes are from there.
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The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.
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I wanted to be a stuntman. I've done stunts since I was 11, and wanted to be able to do them whatever kind of work I ended up in. I've had a horse roll on me, but luckily, everything stayed intact.
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Photoaging is the worst. It wreaks havoc.
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I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.
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In Lyra’s heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won.
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Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.
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It's just a great feeling, once you have a child.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
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I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.
