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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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
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The food of a country is my story. It is a small story, but people relate so much to it. I want to share that, but also the idea of bringing people and family together.
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A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.
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I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
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Prentice: Unnatural vice can ruin a man.Rance: Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.
