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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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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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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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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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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
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I was happy to hear the manager say that and for him to introduce me to the team. It means he has confidence in me. He’s given me the chance to prove myself, but I wasn’t expecting it to happen so quickly because I was working with the youth team.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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He was himself and he had lost the speedHe started with, and he was left behind.
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This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
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What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.
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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.
