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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Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
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By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.
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I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.
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The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
