Norton Juster Quotes
Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.
Quotes to Explore
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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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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What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.
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While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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There is no single way to educate.
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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.
