Michael Foreman Quotes

When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

Michael Foreman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 21, 1938

Topics

LifeChildrenWritingWorldClassic

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

Jessica Capshaw

ThinkBetterYouBadChoicePerson

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

Robert Redford

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When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

Stephen Graham

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I love con-men characters in film.

Simon Baker

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Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive.

Ronda Rousey

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I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

Mary Meeker

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I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.

Mary Mouser

LoveYouWriteSingBooksIdea

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

Louise Jameson

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We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig von Mises

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Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

Donald Trump, Jr.

ValueYouLookUnderstandReal

I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.

Clive Barker

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