Joe Orton Quotes
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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I've got tons more stuff to do.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.
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I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's been just the most amazing time of my life. I'd love more of it.
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I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Persuasion's flowing well.
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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
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When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.
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Every experience I've had with 'Power' has been so great, so to become a series regular was fantastic.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.
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Prentice: Unnatural vice can ruin a man.Rance: Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.
