Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
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I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.
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What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?
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I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.
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It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.
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When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.
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And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's when her teeth really go bad. It's a terrible, terrible time for her. And she has five children, ranging in age from three to 10. It's an emotionally terrible ordeal.
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It's fantastic to have the opportunity to race at home, so I wouldn't miss it.
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
