John Mortimer Quotes
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
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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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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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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
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I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.
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Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.
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About magazines school children sell, which his wife buys without even looking at what she's buying.
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If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
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All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
