Deborah Norville Quotes
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
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My day-to-day varies. I do some public speaking. I talk to school groups.
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I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
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The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
