Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Want
  • Continue
  • Differently

• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Moment

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Running
  • Alone

• We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Doing

• Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Seattle

• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Trying

• ...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • People
  • Psychology

• The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • History

• It is as difficult for Chinese politicians to get a real smile from the people as it is to keep the sky blue and clouds white.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Real
  • Smile

• ...the world is possibility if only you'll discover it.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • World

• To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Happy

• By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole

• When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Struggle

• I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Joy

• The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Father
  • Cooking

• I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed.

  

  Om Malik
  • Experience
  • Alone

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Life
  • Money
  • Book