John Morley Quotes
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.
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Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
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Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
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If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
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I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.
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When the gig ain't there, you still got to pay the rent. I learned that a long time ago.
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Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that's hard.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
