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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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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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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I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
