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.
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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.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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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.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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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.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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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?
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.
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Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
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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.
