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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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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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.
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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.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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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.
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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.
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I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
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You guys are the best. I'll see you in a couple of hours. I haven't seen another human being in 13 hours and I'm running out of bottles for my urine. Later guys!
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Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
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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.
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To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.
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I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.
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I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.
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I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
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Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?
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Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
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Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
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If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
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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.
