John Morley Quotes
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
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In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
