Michelle Magorian Quotes

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

Michelle Magorian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 6, 1947

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I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.

John Leguizamo

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We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

Ann Wilson

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It's kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you're already with.

Stephen Curry

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I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

Mohit Chauhan

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You can't hide God in you. God was not meant to become part of you, and you hide out in the closet. I don't think He wanted that. I think He wanted people to see the Christ in you that reflects Him.

Lou Brock

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I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.

Jason Momoa

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Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

Jon Scieszka

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I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

Chet Faker

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The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Chen-Ning Yang

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I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

Cindy Sheehan

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Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Brian Greene

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I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

Pim Fortuyn

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