Denis Norden Quotes
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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Golf is a better game played downhill.
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James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.
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I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
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Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.
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Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!
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Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
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If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
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Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
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We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an animal who has not been fed or watered. It is you!! This neglected, exiled animal, hungry for attention, is a part of your self.
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The laws of the Universe are responding to me.
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He had the kind of handshake that ought never to be used except as a tourniquet.