James Norton Quotes

Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.

James Norton

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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.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Live
  • Food
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Partner

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • World
  • Disaster

• Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Kids
  • See

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Coming

• People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Walking

• 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.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Think
  • Trouble

• I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Feel
  • Guilty
  • Owning

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Communication
  • Answer

• Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Doing

• I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Parents
  • Know
  • See

• 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!'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Smile
  • Jail
  • Criminals

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Small
  • Myself
  • Drug

• Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.

  

  Karl Marx

• 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?

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Trying
  • Lost

• In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Country
  • Home
  • America

• I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Rock

• Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.

  

  James Norton