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Michael Morpurgo Quotes

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Mother Music Words Me Bed She

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

Father Mother Travel Think American

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

School I Am Me Journalism Advocacy

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

Child Canada Trouble Right Years

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

Women Girl History Learn Gay Say

We have to have each other's back. That's just football. That's how it's been since we were younger. Before you learn technique and scheme when you're a little kid, you're out there scrapping.

Football Learn You Back Kid Out

Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands.

Create Know Three Entertainment Web

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

Hip-Hop Talk Always Just Like About

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Thornton Wilder

Home Pride Envy Every Avarice

The U.S. would still like to see Assad go at some point. That would be our desired outcome.

Go See Point Would Still Outcome

I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Lesley Manville

Work Painting Thinking I Can Him

I love having that conversation with someone I've never met before who's enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.

Kelsea Ballerini

Love Someone Conversation Never Able

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

Patience Woman Key Slow You Way

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