Norton Juster Quotes
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.
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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers
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Winter solitude - in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
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It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.
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I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a comedian role.
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Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
