John Morley Quotes
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
