Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Michael Morpurgo
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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
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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
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
Vanessa Kerry
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
Sally Kirkland
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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.
Zhang Ziyi
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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.
Karen Gillan
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I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.
Chris Owen
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I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.
Eric Burdon
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
Buchi Emecheta
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Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.
Alexis Arguello
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You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.
Asghar Farhadi
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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Michael Morpurgo
