Morris Gleitzman Quotes

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.

Morris Gleitzman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleProblemsYoungWriteCapable

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

Jim Rash

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We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

John Mackey

LiveHealthLegalInsuranceRight

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Anna Neagle

FatherSeaJobBrotherWaitBetter

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

Amy Sedaris

FlyingFriendsKnowOkayAirArms

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.

Michelle Alexander

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I don't really wear sarees and suits.

Disha Patani

SuitsWearReally

I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.

Chrissie Hynde

MusicGirlThinkGuitarPlayRock

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

Prabal Gurung

HopeTimeWorldLookNieceShe

Technology adds nothing to art.

Penn Jillette

TechnologyArtNothingAdds

It's not that we can predict bubbles - if we could, we would be rich. But we can certainly have a bubble warning system.

Richard Thaler

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Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Lena Olin

CharacterYourselfInterestingFind

The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.

Lena Andersson

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