James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
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I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.
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The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'
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I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.
