Norton Juster Quotes
Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
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Love is the law, love under will.
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Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.
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If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
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The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.
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The Guardian Interview 1 August 2013.
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Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we'd try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.
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An atomic Iran is imminent … mullahs may have bomb by June.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.
