Norton Juster Quotes
I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide… If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
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What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?
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It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
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Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
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More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
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I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man - it doesn't matter - a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.
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My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.
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When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.
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You've got to be the best person you can be in your life.
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I'm just excited to watch my kids grow up.
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Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.
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The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.
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I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.
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I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age.
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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
