Dont worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. – Michael Morpurgo
Its the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. – Michael Morpurgo
Dont worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. – Michael Morpurgo
Its the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. – Michael Morpurgo
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the pity of war as Wilfred Owen called it. – Michael Morpurgo
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. – Michael Morpurgo
Im terrified of being too famous. What Im really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that its me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities. – Noomi Rapace
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. – Richard Cobden