Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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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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Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
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My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.
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Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that process. I don't exactly know how the story just comes, but it does. But in writing a story that you're inventing, versus writing a story that somebody else has made up - there's a world of difference. In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing.
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For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
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Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.
