John Morley Quotes
Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I want everyone to know that I'm here. We'll talk; we'll visit.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
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Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity.
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“This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.”
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Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
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Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.
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Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
