Danny Orton Quotes
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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'Well,' said Dr Jochum, 'you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.'
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls. (p.128)
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Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.
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Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
