Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.
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We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole.
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Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.
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I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
