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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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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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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Isn't that - isn't that remarkable? Biff - he likes me!
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
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When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.
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All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!
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Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
