James Norton Quotes
For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
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It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled.
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Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.
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For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
