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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What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
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I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
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Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
