Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

Michael Morpurgo

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• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Marriage

• Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Percent
  • Mental

• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Businessman

• On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Work
  • Priority

• I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Looks
  • Difficult

• Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Team
  • Die
  • Heal

• I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Thinking
  • Legislation

• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Majority

• It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Vision
  • Face

• ... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Feelings

• I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Age

• We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Opposites
  • Hunters

• Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • Language
  • Russian
  • Peaks

• An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • Home
  • Responsibility
  • Advice

• Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Why
  • Woman
  • Succeed

• Maximizers, according to a series of studies by Schwartz, are lower than satisficers in happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and higher in depression and regret!

  

  Ed Diener
  • Happiness
  • Regret
  • Self-Esteem

• I think she understates in favour of her own sex the inequality which she admits to exist between the male and female intellect.

  

  Ernest Belfort Bax
  • Sex
  • Exist
  • Intellect

• Is Thom Yorke there? Oh he is? Well then how the can I be Thom Yorke, talking to you, right here, on the phone.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Talking
  • Wells
  • Phones

• I think that knowing where you're going is important, and it's not like, when Robert says that, it's not like we know what every episode of the next five, four, five, six seasons of the show is going to be. I think Matt Weiner knew how Mad Men was going to end. Vince Gilligan knew how Breaking Bad was going to end. Marc Cherry knew how Desperate Housewives was going to end. Along the way, the process of crafting those stories ... You don't know what the road, what twists and turns that road is going to take to ultimately get you there.

  

  Chris Black
  • Important
  • End
  • Knowing

• I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Stories
  • Knowing
  • Wells