Norton Juster Quotes
But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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I have a very short attention span.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
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But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
