John Mortimer Quotes

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

John Mortimer

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• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Fun
  • Game

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Process
  • Excellence
  • Days

• Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Done
  • Character
  • Guy

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Song
  • Learn
  • Balance

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Say
  • Citizens
  • Been

• I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Write

• Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Important
  • Space
  • Goals

• Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Fool

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • School
  • Society

• I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Men
  • Love
  • Mother

• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

  

  Adele
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Words

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

  

  John Mortimer
  • Fear
  • Magic