Deborah Norville Quotes
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
Quotes to Explore
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Women drive box office.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
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At the north-eastern angle is the chapel, an uncommonly hideous relic of late Victorian times.
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He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
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Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
