Joe Morton Quotes
You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.

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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I like to be against the odds.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
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Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.
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I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.
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Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
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You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.