Morris Gleitzman Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
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I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
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Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.
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Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.
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I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.
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Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once
