Joe Orton Quotes
McLeavy: My duty is clear.Truscott: Only the authorities can decide when your duty is clear. Wild guesses by persons like yourself can only cause confusion.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I grew up on films.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm, Yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new, In city and in forest they smiled like me and you, But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.
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There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.
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It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
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We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.
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Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.
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I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.
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It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.
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McLeavy: My duty is clear.Truscott: Only the authorities can decide when your duty is clear. Wild guesses by persons like yourself can only cause confusion.
