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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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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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 think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
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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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Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.
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I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.
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All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.
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I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
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Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
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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.
