Norton Juster Quotes
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?Norton Juster
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
Rachel Griffiths -
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
Fede Alvarez -
It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
Vin Scully -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring -
I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
Kara Lindsay -
God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
Kajal Aggarwal -
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
Kaley Cuoco -
I have never had personal debt and never will.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
Nancy Gibbs -
I think I really benefited from going to college.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
Tammy Duckworth -
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
Gabrielle Reece -
For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
Mac DeMarco -
The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
Nancy Kress -
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde -
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Nancy Pelosi
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
Frances McDormand -
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Warren Zevon -
My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
Karan Johar -
The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
Laura Hillenbrand -
It's an American treasure, and we'll take good care of it.
Alec Stewart -
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
Norton Juster