Michael Morpurgo Quotes
My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
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I love making lists.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
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I've been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.
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I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
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I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.
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God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.
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I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
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I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.
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He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.
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That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.
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My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.
