Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

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• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Vision
  • United States
  • Truck

• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Lies

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Know
  • Challenges
  • Big

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
  • Attracted

• I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Night
  • Day

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Faith
  • Fighting

• Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Pretty
  • Child
  • Information

• Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Yourself

• I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Real
  • Think
  • Comedy

• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Great
  • Light
  • Universe

• 'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Presence

• Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Work
  • Long
  • Mind

• I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it.

  

  Bob Dylan

• I just want to ask a question:Who really cares?To save a world in despairThere'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'Who really cares?Who's willing to try to save a worldThat's destined to die?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Die

• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.

  

  Jennifer Doudna
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Technology

• Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing. As we danced in the night, Remember how the stars stole the night away.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Remember
  • Changing
  • Danced

• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

  Edmund White
  • Like
  • Always
  • Driver

• Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Remember
  • Style
  • Enjoy