Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.Michael Morpurgo
Quotes to Explore
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
Oscar Isaac -
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan -
It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
Fabrizio Moreira -
The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
Daniel Gillies -
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher -
Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
Rachel Weisz -
Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick -
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
Malorie Blackman -
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
Irving Babbitt -
I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
Oliver Reed -
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
Eckhart Tolle -
'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
Edgar Wright -
You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
Sabrina Bryan
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.
Adolf Hitler -
Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
Klaus Schwab -
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.
Walid Jumblatt -
When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
Sam Hunt -
Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.
Michael Morpurgo