Michael Morpurgo Quotes

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1943

Topics

FocusWordsCreativeSchoolMeFlow

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Jimmy Carl Black

PeopleMindCoolQuestionsTalking

I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.

Jim Cramer

GoodGreatBlessedFeelNeverOut

I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.

Jessica Sanchez

NextSingBallads

You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a small town filled with noble creatures who have to get out there and make it brand new every night. When a production works, it's unlike any other joy in the world.

John Guare

JoyHappyPeopleWorldNightSmall

I was never a fanatical movie person.

John Malkovich

PersonNeverMovieFanatical

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

John Polanyi

ScienceExperiencePeoplePursuit

My father was a country music singer and a motion picture actor, Tex Ritter, and I sort of had a normal upbringing, except dad would come down in full regalia with the boots and the guns and the hats, and the horse would eat with us. But other than that, it was pretty normal.

John Ritter

FatherMusicPictureHorseBoots

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

CommitmentEqualityPeoplePolitical

I look up to many great players - principally attackers. The two Ronaldos, Romario and Rivaldo all play well.

Roberto Firmino

GreatLookPlayTwoUpWell

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

Mary Karr

DogGreatPrayerWritingSayWant

While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

Jay Nixon

RespectResponsibilityLawProtect

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

Claudia Rankine

LifeChangeServiceKingBlack

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