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.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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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.
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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.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
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I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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!
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Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.
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That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
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I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
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As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.
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For many years I didn't have health insurance.
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I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
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You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
