Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I like things simple.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
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From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
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After President Obama took office, his campaign book 'The Audacity of Hope' receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan 'let's reason together' passages fell away, too.
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Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.
