Denis Norden Quotes

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

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• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

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• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

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• If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.

  

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• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

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• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

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• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

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• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

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• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

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• I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

  

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• I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

  

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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

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• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

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• Comedy requires a lot of energy.

  

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• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

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• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

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• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

  

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• North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

  

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• I play to be happy in the first place and then to help my colleagues and my team the best way I can, with the best football.

  

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• Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

  

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• God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

  

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• Men in their prayers beg the gods for health, not knowing that this is a thing they have in their own power. Through their incontinence undermining it, they themselves become, because of their passions, the betrayers of their own health.

  

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• I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

  

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• The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

  

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