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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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.
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There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
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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.
