Michael Rosen quotes
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“Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.”
-- Michael RosenSource : "Macca the Paperback Writer". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.
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“Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.”
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“Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.”
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“Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.”
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“Respect is fatal, isn't it?”
-- Michael RosenSource : "Talking shop: Michael Rosen". news.bbc.co.uk. June 12, 2007.
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“Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.”
-- Michael Rosen
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“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”
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“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”
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“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
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“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
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Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.
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