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Michael Morpurgo Quotes

It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Confidence Me Writing Believe I Can

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

Andrew Lo

Responsibility Black Someone Creating

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

Robert Irwin

Great Time I Am Questions You Way

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Anna Chlumsky

Life Family Home School Me Year

After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

Jeff Sessions

Work Today Time People Immigration

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Andy Goldsworthy

Memories Stone Historical Geological

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

Tony Stewart

Family Car I Am Racing Go Race

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

Tom Watson

Never Position Been Who Guys Lot

To try to be a professional athlete and work out when you're not sleeping right, you're traveling day to day, not to mention the bumps and bruises in the ring, and you're trying to eat right - it's a very, very challenging job.

Rob Van Dam

Work Day Job Trying You Ring

I've gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we're going to see if we can't bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits. I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.

Ron White

Women Money Men Brave Honor Friends

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

Dixie Lee Ray

Chemistry Organic Destroyed Laws Nor

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.

Doug Jones

Character Stress Me Writing Drive

Ms. Rice was a bad national security adviser and a bad secretary of state. She was on the wrong side of some of the administration's biggest internal policy fights. She had a tendency to flip-flop when it came to the president's core priorities, and her political misjudgment more than once cost Mr. Bush dearly.

Bret Stephens

Political Priorities Bad Security