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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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
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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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I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
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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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Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I've bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming 'Robin Hood' in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.
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I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.
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I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.
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I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
