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!

Michael Morpurgo

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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

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

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Night
  • Day

• 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

• 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

• The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Door

• Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.

  

  Charlie Haden

• The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

  

  James Bryce

• I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

  

  Andrew Stanton
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Breaks

• I don't feel that old, but when I talk to these kids, I do feel old. Because I'm talking about taxes and all this other stuff that is very, very boring. And these guys are talking about music, and I'm like, 'Oh, I remember those days.'

  

  Jason Day
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.

  

  Matt de la Pena
  • World
  • Kids
  • Lost

• 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