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.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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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.
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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.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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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.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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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.
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Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.
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When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.
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All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
