Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them.

Jessica St. Clair

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I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

Roman Coppola

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Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Mary Lou Retton

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I care about America. I care about the people that can't find jobs. I care about my 20 grandkids and what kind of America they are going to have.

Mitt Romney

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It is amazing what colleagues tell you about the inefficiencies and about what works and what doesn't. It is a real-life check on our ideas.

Judith McKenna

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I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

Judy Biggert

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Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Corbin Bernsen

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I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.

CM Punk

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I didn't really want to give up music.

Bryan Ferry

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I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Peter Matthiessen

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I can't cook a thing.

Peter Morton

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Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Penelope Cruz

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