James Norton Quotes
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
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Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
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I believe you can work with anybody.
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It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and Robert von Neumann would wander around and he'd come up behind someone and say, "Well, what are you trying to do?" And if you told him what you were trying to do, he would then proceed to discuss this with you and suggest things that you might look at and ways in which you could improve what you were attempting to do, etc - never worked on your painting, never touched your painting but talked extensively about what you were trying to do.
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This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
