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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• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• 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

• I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • You
  • Look
  • I Can

• I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Old
  • Days

• 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

• Come and look for Peterkin, poor little Peterkin. No one would believe us if we told them what we know, Or they wouldn't grieve for Peterkin, merry little Peterkin...

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Believe

• I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• I never wanted to be the face of the brand. You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.

  

  John Varvatos
  • Clothes
  • Own
  • Stand

• Howarth began to see that, however much it was against one’s will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Taken

• There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald

• Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

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

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Life
  • Money
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