Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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Birth was the death of him.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
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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.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
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Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.
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His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
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I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.
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How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch
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I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.
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I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.
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I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
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Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.
