Joe Orton Quotes
Mrs Prentice: Have you taken up transvestism? I'd no idea our marriage teetered on the edge of fashion.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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Mrs Prentice: Have you taken up transvestism? I'd no idea our marriage teetered on the edge of fashion.
