Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

Jess Row

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When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

John Gates

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In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview.

John Oliver

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Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.

Amy Jackson

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I don't care about being on television.

Steve Prefontaine

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It speaks to the incredible risk of doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran if American companies have to turn to federally guaranteed funding mechanisms to support their business there.

Mike Pompeo

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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

Mickey Mantle

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My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

Jonathan Ive

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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu

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The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

Boots Riley

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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Bob Newhart

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I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

Anthony Horowitz

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