Joe Morton Quotes
Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
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In business, experience is the big teacher.
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I don't believe in luck.
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I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
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Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.
