Dean Norris Quotes
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.
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Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!
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Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
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My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
