PJ Morton Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
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When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.
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Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
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I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.
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The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.
Colson Whitehead -
I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.
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It helped me understand music and to understand people and performing, it was all positive for me and set me up for where I am now.
