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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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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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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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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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.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
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Being seen is important for people. Doesn't happen enough for anyone. We're not here long in this world.
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What has reason to do with the art of painting?
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
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Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
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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.
