Joe Orton Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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People trash talk me.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!
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Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.
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I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.
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Fay: The Ten Commandments. She was a great believer in some of them.
