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 outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.
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I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.
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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.
