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Michael Morpurgo Quotes

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Friend Time Best I Am Face Talking

I don't think my career would be as good if I were a serious actress. Comedy is less age-conscious.

Jennifer Coolidge

Good Think Comedy Career Serious

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

Day Me Wine Feeling Go Bread

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

John Negroponte

Path Democracy Small Back Country

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

Character Yourself You Play Ask

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

Great Small Always Like Gangsters

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Writing You Want Finish Everything

My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing up, told me that I looked like Charlie Chaplin. That didn't really resonate with me when I was younger - I hadn't seen a lot of his films.

Life Funny Me Growing Up Story Aunt

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Government Thought Tyranny System

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

Father Hope Great Amazing Husband

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Mind Superstition Poison

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.

People Game Enough You Want Ahead

I confess I do a lot of the wrong things: I smoke, and I drink wine, and people might be horrified at my eating habits - I eat when I'm hungry, and if I'm not, I don't.

People Eating Wine Smoke Wrong Eat

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