Joe Orton Quotes
On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, 'Melancholia? Ad nauseam.'
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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Somebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward!
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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
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We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.
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We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.
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On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, 'Melancholia? Ad nauseam.'
