Michael Morpurgo Quotes

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Michael Morpurgo

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• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Want

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Stage
  • Act
  • Sing

• I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History
  • Society

• The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Rebel

• I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • People
  • Music
  • Lies

• I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.

  

  James F. Amos

• I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Education
  • Productivity

• I stay far away from political humor.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Political

• I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Mother
  • Father

• Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • History

• If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and produce its own electricity, probably using a form of water as fuel. Even automobiles might be cold-fusion powered.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Home
  • Power
  • Water

• I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

  

  Freema Agyeman
  • Believe
  • Promise
  • Solitude

• If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.

  

  Andrew Gelman
  • Study
  • Advice
  • Relation

• Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Friends
  • Actors
  • Worst

• Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.

  

  John Sulston
  • Children
  • School
  • She

• The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Differences
  • Harmony
  • Discord

• It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Teacher
  • Differences
  • Classroom