Joe Orton Quotes
Prentice: It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.Match: Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which is entirely appropriate.
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The fact that gay marriage is legal but women don't have equal rights is so redonkulous that I think it just doesn't stand the light of day.
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Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
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Prentice: It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.Match: Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.
