Michael Morpurgo Quotes

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

Michael Morpurgo

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• Dream
• Hands
• Reader
• Finishing
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• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Broken

• I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

  

  Finn Jones
  • World
  • Always
  • Seeing

• I love Justice Marshall. He did an enormous amount for me. But if you confirm me to this position, you will get Justice Kagan. You won't get Justice Marshall, and that's an important thing.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Important
  • Justice

• You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People

• The use of crypto-currency as a surrogate for the ruble in trading in goods and services, in our opinion, has a risk of undermining the circulation of money.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Money
  • Opinion
  • Risk

• I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • People
  • Work

• When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Time
  • Hand

• I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.

  

  Doris Duke
  • Work
  • Fun

• I don't really have a more intellectualized approach. After the fact, I can sure talk about stuff a lot - but when I make decisions, I really just follow what sounds good to me.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Good

• What can I say about 'The Lost Boys'? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I'm scared of it. I had a massive crush on them all when I was young. And I wanted to be a vampire. It's so stylized; it's the type of film I grew up on. To me, it's always at the top.

  

  Jaime Winstone
  • Up
  • God
  • Hate

• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  

  Kim Campbell
  • Up
  • Exercise
  • Pride

• We've found that the more niche you are, the better off you are.

  

  Jenny Packham

• There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.

  

  Alexandra Cassavetes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Romantic

• There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Picture

• I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

  

  Loretta Napoleoni
  • Good
  • Single
  • Red

• The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

  

  John Carmack
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Wind

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Dream

• For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Hands