Joe Orton Quotes
Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position.Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
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Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.
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When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.
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Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position.Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.
