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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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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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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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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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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Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.
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Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.
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There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
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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.
