Joe Orton Quotes
Fay: You've been a widower for three days. Have you considered remarrying yet?McLeavy: No.Fay: Why not?McLeavy: I've been so busy with the funeral.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables.
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The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
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Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.
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Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.
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It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'
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Fay: You've been a widower for three days. Have you considered remarrying yet?McLeavy: No.Fay: Why not?McLeavy: I've been so busy with the funeral.
