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Joe Morton Quotes

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Choices You Industry I Came

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Family Money Situation Because Idea

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

You Three Way Write Over Shoulder

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

Best Ideas Survive Through Natural

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Life Love Heart Name My Life Cannot

My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.

Business Community Parents Small

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Jonathan Lethem

Love Black You Everything Hole

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

Fear Great Time Ocean Animal Mean

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, look at you Dikembe, you cannot even stand up.' It took a long time for me to walk.

Dikembe Mutombo

Time Walk Broken Growing Up Start

I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

Loved Loving Mean Up Playing Sense

Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.

Time Me Ahead Filter Half Greatest

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

More Nonfiction Fan Read Many

Our country has made a promise to our veterans: if you serve your country, then 'we've got your six.' We will have your back for life. I will always fight for the more than 250,000 veterans here in Arkansas.

Conner Eldridge

Life Fight You Back Country Will

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