Michael Morpurgo Quotes
What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
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Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.
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On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.
