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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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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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.
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I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.
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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.
