Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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Randomness works well in search-sometimes better than humans.
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No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
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The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
