Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
Michael Morpurgo
Quotes to Explore
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
Dana Perino
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
Dan Jenkins
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
Octavia Spencer
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
Edward Young
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In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
Philip Gibbs
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
Bruce Cockburn
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I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.
Sean Paul
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My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews Band
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Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.
Jeff Sessions
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Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.
Jennifer Carpenter
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Unfortunately with the media, the red tops, and all the celebrity weekly magazines, the ones who were once loyal - well, when I say loyal, this is a game; this is a game that we're in. If it's your time to get picked on, then you get picked on, and, you know, I'm used to that.
Katie Price
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True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.
John Bevere
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
Michael Morpurgo
