Richard Morris Quotes
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.
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This is the game. We win some, we lose some but I will never shy away from a challenge.
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I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.
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On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
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After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
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The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.
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I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.
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As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.
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I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine - it hurts my eyes. When I used to live in more communal circumstances, I had to wait until everyone had gone to bed before I had the peace to write, and I still find I can get on with my writing much better at night.
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Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.
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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
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I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.
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I would never say no to comedy.
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The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.
