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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• In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.

  

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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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• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

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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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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  

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

  

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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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• I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.

  

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• I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.

  

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• When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.

  

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• As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

  

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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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