Joe Orton Quotes
Prentice: What this young woman claims is a tissue of lies.Match: This is a boy, sir. Not a girl. If you're baffled by the difference it might be as well to approach both with caution.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.
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I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.
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If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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Prentice: What this young woman claims is a tissue of lies.Match: This is a boy, sir. Not a girl. If you're baffled by the difference it might be as well to approach both with caution.
