Norton Juster Quotes
Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I don't think anyone masters parenthood.
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I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
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Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.
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Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
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Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
