Joe Morton Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
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My dad was a really funny, really talented guy who had a great success in a limited audience. But from him, I learned that he always felt the audience was entitled to 150 per cent. If he was performing at an event, he'd keep playing until the last person had finished dancing.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise
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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
