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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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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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
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Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.
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I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.
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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?
