Michael Morpurgo Quotes
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.Michael Morpurgo
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
Gavin Bryars -
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
Captain Beefheart -
I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
Ian Ziering -
Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
Hafez -
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
Yul Vazquez
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I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
Bear Grylls -
I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
T-Pain -
I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!
Oprah Winfrey -
For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!
Boy George Culture Club -
Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.
Chelsea Handler -
I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -
I believe in being positive.
Joe Greene -
A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?
Freddie Wong -
Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
Kathy Bates
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If on some occasion I happen to read something in it - because, for instance, I neet to know a date - I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.
Max Frisch -
Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
William Petersen -
I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.
Kelly Clarkson -
I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.
Phoebe Snow -
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
Michael Morpurgo