Deborah Norville Quotes
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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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'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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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.
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I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
