James Norton Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.
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Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.
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I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
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I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.
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My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.
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When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.
