Norm MacDonald Quotes
If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there Hollywood weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.Norm MacDonald
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci -
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones -
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
Ian Mckellen
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
Zadie Smith -
I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
Zendaya -
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni -
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Tacitus -
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler -
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
Karl Marlantes
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
Patrick Marber -
The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
Pat Robertson -
I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
Uma Thurman -
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
Ira Glass -
Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.
Rani Mukerji -
For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.
Jeff Baena
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In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.
Stevie Smith -
I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic.
Keith Hernandez -
You guys played hard, ... and it came right down to the last hole, just the way we wanted it to, and your guys did just what you're supposed to do: Three guys birdies the 18th hole to win it.
Gary Player -
If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there Hollywood weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.
Norm MacDonald