"Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world."

-- Michael Morpurgo

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“There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.”
“I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.”
“Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.”
“I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.”
“I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.”
“If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.”
“I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.”
“I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.”

Source : "Archie Panjabi: 'I love roles that transform me'" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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