Melvin Burgess Quotes

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

Melvin Burgess

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 25, 1954

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Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'

Andy Biersack

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I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

Matthew Desmond

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A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Steve Harvey

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Wrestling is a universal language. The moves, the facial expressions, most people understand.

Shinsuke Nakamura

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I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

Ronald D. Moore

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Ask any cop, and they'll assure you that it doesn't exactly take a forensics team from NCIS to figure out that someone is an illegal.

Mike Gallagher

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You can't express emotion without giving information.

Louis MacNeice

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The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.

Jose Maria Aznar

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Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

Annie Lennox

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I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

Anthony Foxx

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When I see a cutie in front at a concert, I say, 'Ohhh, you're so cute! What's your name?' But I wouldn't do that in real life.

Pepa

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Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

Paula Patton

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