Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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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 simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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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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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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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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Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.
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Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.
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The team with the best players wins.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
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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.
