Morris Gleitzman Quotes

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.

Morris Gleitzman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 9, 1953

Topics

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I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

Jim DeMint

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It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

JoBeth Williams

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I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.

Jenji Kohan

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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Max Eastman

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I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

John Travolta

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I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

Tommy Shaw

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Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

River Phoenix

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I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it.

Ross Mathews

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Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.

Mary Pilon

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I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

Diego Luna

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Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

Donna Brazile

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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

David Shields

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