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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We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us.
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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.
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People are always looking for something to hate on. If this is something for them to target and hate on, that's their thing. I look at it as satire.
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I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
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The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
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Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position.Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.
