Norton Juster Quotes

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

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• Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • First
  • Show

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Kid
  • Generation

• It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Body
  • Voice

• I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stop

• When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Friends
  • Brother

• I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Myself

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

  

  Joan Allen

• On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Country
  • High

• As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Trying
  • Hilarious

• I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

  

  Alicia Sacramone
  • Chinese

• It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I actually like and love Chevy Chase.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar

• Digital payments have already made it easier to move and manage money. While there's more work to do, the potential is real and understood.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Work
  • Real
  • Money

• The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • People
  • Business

• I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Family
  • Connection
  • Sibling

• Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
  • Couple

• A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • May
  • History
  • Powerful

• Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!

  

  William Mortensen
  • Emotional
  • Records
  • Without

• I can do anything I want.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Want
  • Choices
  • Can Do

• ...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Mean
  • Study

• Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Mean
  • Choices