Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
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I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.
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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.
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I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
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She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was heartbroken." "For how long?" "A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.
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David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.
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All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.
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I'll give him a run for his money.
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There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.
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Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
