Norton Juster Quotes
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
