Joe Orton Quotes
Fay: Have you given a thought to the priest?Truscott: We can't have him in on it, miss. Our percentage wouldn't be worth having.Fay: Mr McLeavy threatened to expose us.Truscott: I've been exposed before.Fay: What happened?Truscott: I arrested the man. He's doing twelve years.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
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After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.
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Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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Candy on the 6-4, leather guts and fishbowlFifty on the pinky ring just to make my fist glow
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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
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One day, my father brings a cassette. He's showing me this, and he's like, 'Look at this guy, his name is Anthony Santos, like you.' I popped it on and started hearing the songs, the music, and I was like, 'Wow, this sounds great.'
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Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.
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Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
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There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.
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Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.
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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
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I got a message from Downing Street that my picture's hanging in the White House. Which is weird.
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Revolutions never go backward.
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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
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I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
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Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
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Fay: Have you given a thought to the priest?Truscott: We can't have him in on it, miss. Our percentage wouldn't be worth having.Fay: Mr McLeavy threatened to expose us.Truscott: I've been exposed before.Fay: What happened?Truscott: I arrested the man. He's doing twelve years.
