Joe Orton Quotes
Fay: Have you known him long?Hal: We shared the same cradle.Fay: Was that economy or malpractice?Hal: We were too young then to practice and economics still defeat us.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
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Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.
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After a very long year we've got a very short knight.
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Fay: Have you known him long?Hal: We shared the same cradle.Fay: Was that economy or malpractice?Hal: We were too young then to practice and economics still defeat us.
