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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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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I believe in being positive.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.
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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
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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.
