Norman Spinrad Quotes
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
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My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
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Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.
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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
