Edmund Morris Quotes
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A great painting is a great painting.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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You might not want to go without essential health benefits or lose consumer protections if an insurance company many states away denies your claim or goes belly-up.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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I row after health like a waterman.
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Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.
