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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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth
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And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.
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Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
