Joe Morton Quotes
You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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I try not to intellectualise what I do.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Those who are making history seldom have time to record it.
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It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.
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You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.
