Joe Morton Quotes
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.
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Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
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If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
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We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.
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Spontaneity has its time and its place.
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Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.
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What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
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The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
