John Mortimer Quotes
Beliefs about how you live your life, matters of private decision, views best kept for private enjoyment, prejudice or entertainment, can't be imposed by the operation of criminal law. Attempts to enforce such views can only make the government the subject of ridicule.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'
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One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
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Beliefs about how you live your life, matters of private decision, views best kept for private enjoyment, prejudice or entertainment, can't be imposed by the operation of criminal law. Attempts to enforce such views can only make the government the subject of ridicule.
