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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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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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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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
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What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
