Joe Morton Quotes
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
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Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
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Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar,Dismantling earth and stars - The cosmic beauties all to mar - Not Nature’s murderous mutiny,Nor man’s exploding destinyCan touch me here.
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If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.
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After men have got their exaltations and their crowns--have become Gods, even the sons of God--are made Kings of kings and Lords of lords, they have the power then of propagating their species in spirit; and that is the first of their operations with regard to organizing a world. Power is then given to them to organize the elements, and then commence the organization of tabernacles.
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I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
