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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.


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J. B. PRIESTLEY If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I ...
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SAMANTHA MORTON I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
SAMANTHA MORTON I am proud of what I've done.
SAMANTHA MORTON I was physically abused and I retaliated.
SAMANTHA MORTON I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
SAMANTHA MORTON My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
SAMANTHA MORTON I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
SAMANTHA MORTON Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direc...
SAMANTHA MORTON The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
SAMANTHA MORTON I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't k...
SAMANTHA MORTON Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn....
SAMANTHA MORTON Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
SAMANTHA MORTON For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money o...
SAMANTHA MORTON I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't h...
SAMANTHA MORTON I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will s...
SAMANTHA MORTON It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children g...
SAMANTHA MORTON I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring m...
SAMANTHA MORTON We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to ch...
SAMANTHA MORTON You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play ...
SAMANTHA MORTON When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're tal...
SAMANTHA MORTON I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with chil...
SAMANTHA MORTON I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. Th...
SAMANTHA MORTON What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless y...
SAMANTHA MORTON I like to stretch my acting muscles.
SAMANTHA MORTON In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't re...
KATE MORTON People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
KATE MORTON I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
KATE MORTON I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them,...
KATE MORTON I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
KATE MORTON There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and...
KATE MORTON I love the structural part of the writing process.
KATE MORTON Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. ...
KATE MORTON It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
MORTON GOULD When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their mar...
MORTON HUNT One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk p...
J.B. MORTON You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating...
SAMANTHA MORTON This book was done with her full cooperation. There is nothing underhanded about it,
ANDREW MORTON probably the scoop of the century.
ANDREW MORTON Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ...
ANDREW MORTON I think it [marrying into the Royal Family] is something Sophie?s mother is quite concerned about. S...
ANDREW MORTON So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may ...
ANDREW MORTON