Joe Morton Quotes
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.
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Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.
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A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
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It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.
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I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.
