Michael Morpurgo Quotes

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

Jet Li

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I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

Joel Edgerton

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Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Jeremy Corbyn

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I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

Andre Dubus III

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My entire life has been inspired by how my family has made me feel.

Michael Buble

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I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Michael Chiklis

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My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

Amy Tan

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The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

Steve Erickson

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My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

Robin Roberts

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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Livy

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I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person.

Lizzy Caplan

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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Drew Barrymore

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