Michael Morpurgo Quotes
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
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Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.
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As an actor, that's what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I'm not used to and push my own envelope and see what I'm capable of.
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Would you rather have cheap, subsidized - illegally subsidized - goods dumped into the Wal-Mart and not have a job and not have your wages go up in 15 years, or would you like to pay a little bit more - not much - a little bit more, have a job, and have your wages going up? I think the American people are going to make that choice.
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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
