John Mortimer Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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There is always time for failure.
