Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

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• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

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• With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.

  

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• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

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• When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

  

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• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

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• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

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• I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

  

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

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• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

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• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

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• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

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• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

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• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

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• I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

  

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• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

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• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

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• What we see is that we actually have digital channels through which the customers interact, but we also take the absolute brick channels, which is the branch, and convert that experience into a more digitised experience.

  

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• I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.

  

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• I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

  

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• ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  

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• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

  

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