John Mortimer Quotes
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
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When I just started my career, of course, I always try to look very good, and I changes the dress all the time on the performance. And people came to me and said, 'Oh, beautiful dress. Your dress is so beautiful, and you look so beautiful.' That's it. And I was so upset nobody saying anything about my singing.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.
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Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
