Joe Morton Quotes
You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
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People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.
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You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
