Norton Juster Quotes
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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My best friend is my husband.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
