John Mortimer Quotes

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

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• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • See
  • Wait
  • Monarchy

• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Want
  • Myself
  • King

• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Road
  • Open
  • Cycling

• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Effort
  • Find
  • Too Much

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Like
  • TV
  • Medium

• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Exercise
  • Version
  • Bulimia

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Clever

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Dark

• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Courage

• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Community
  • Couple

• I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friends

• Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hardest
  • Begin
  • Goodly

• I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Working

• I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

  

  Jacques Barzun

• You can make a beautiful, airtight world that's fascinating to look at, but it's not interesting unless you have a character that's trying to achieve something under the circumstances of that world. It's harder to play a wacky girlfriend whose journey you just don't understand.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Trying
  • Character

• In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

  

  Johnnie Cochran
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

  

  John Mortimer
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Flower