John Mortimer Quotes
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
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Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
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I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
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Even the most distant and exotic place has its parallel in ordinary life.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
