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.
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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?
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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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.
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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.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
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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.
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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.
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I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
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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.
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It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.
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...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.
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The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
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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.
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...the world is possibility if only you'll discover it.
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Bottom trawls-large bag-shaped nets towed over the sea floor-account for more of the world's catch of fish, shrimp, squid, and other marine animals than any other fishing method. But trawling also disturbs the sea floor more than any other human activity, with increasingly devastating consequences for the world's fish population.
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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...
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Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.
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Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.
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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
