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.Joe Orton
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
T. J. Miller -
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
Samuel Fuller -
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.
Cara Castronuova -
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.
Daisaku Ikeda -
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.
Patrick deWitt
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
Ban Ki-moon -
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
Ferdinand Foch -
Candy on the 6-4, leather guts and fishbowlFifty on the pinky ring just to make my fist glow
T.I. -
The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
Benjamin Graham -
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.'
Anthony Santos Aventura -
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.
Joe Walsh The Eagles
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Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
Mary Gaitskill -
There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.
Adeel Akhtar -
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.
Louis Fischer -
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.
Charles Baudelaire -
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
Daphne du Maurier -
What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.
Leonora Carrington
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
Alexander the Great -
Now I will have less distraction.
Leonhard Euler -
I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews.
Bruce Willis -
The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
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.
Joe Orton