Joe Orton Quotes
Geraldine: I've no idea who my father was.Prentice: I'd better be frank, Miss Barclay. I can't employ you if you're in any way miraculous. It would be contrary to established practice. You did have a father?Geraldine: Oh, I'm sure I did. My mother was frugal in her habits, but she'd never economize unwisely.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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Geraldine: I've no idea who my father was.Prentice: I'd better be frank, Miss Barclay. I can't employ you if you're in any way miraculous. It would be contrary to established practice. You did have a father?Geraldine: Oh, I'm sure I did. My mother was frugal in her habits, but she'd never economize unwisely.
