Joe Morton Quotes

My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

Joe Morton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1947

Topics

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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Jodi Picoult

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I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

Jessie Buckley

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And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

Joan Collins

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I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.

John Delaney

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It's really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that's sexy.

Meghan Markle

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President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

John O. Brennan

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Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush

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Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Tom Stoppard

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I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

Roger Ailes

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Even though half of my stint in 'Balika Vadhu' was positive, people majorly remembered me for the negative part I played initially.

Roop Durgapal

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We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.

Mitchell Baker

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When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.

Debra Granik

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