Christopher Morley Quotes
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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All of us grow.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
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Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.
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There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
