Joe Morton Quotes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.
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If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.
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When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?
