Joe Orton Quotes
I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I said that means you'll never be able to do it.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
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Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second term.
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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.
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Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
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I love the word 'faggot,' because it describes my kind of guy! You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are the backbone of the gay community. Without us, you're nothing! We have been there all through history guiding your sorry ass through the underground railroad! We went to the prom with you!
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.
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I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.
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I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I said that means you'll never be able to do it.
