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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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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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'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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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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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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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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I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future.
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My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.
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I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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Mrs Prentice: Have you taken up transvestism? I'd no idea our marriage teetered on the edge of fashion.
