Joe Morton Quotes
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.
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Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.
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I'm not ill. I'm healthy. I'm not going anywhere. We've got Super Bowls to win.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on 'Idol' really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.
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I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.
