Michael Morpurgo Quotes
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
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I've had asthma my entire life.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
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Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
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It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.
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There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
