Norton Juster Quotes

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

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• There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Up
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• I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Know

• When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Eyes
  • Look

• I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

  

  Brooke Nevin
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• My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • People
  • Character
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• I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Good
  • Interesting

• The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Time
  • Men
  • School

• To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

  

  Ajay Devgan

• Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

  

  Kathy Szeliga
  • Money
  • Job

• Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

  

  John Waters
  • Model
  • Christmas

• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Black
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• Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Leaves

• We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Reality
  • Images
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• You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Up
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• Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Poet
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Law
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• At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Understanding

• I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • Bird

• I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Character
  • Military
  • Honor

• Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

  

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