Norman O. Brown (Norman Oliver Brown) Quotes
The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
Norman O. Brown
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
Abigail Washburn
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
Caity Lotz
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
Campbell Scott
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson
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We all kind of have moments like that, where we don't know why we're acting a certain way, or we can't even explain the emotion that we're feeling.
Joseph David-Jones
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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
Warwick Davis
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It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
David Blunkett
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I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them.
Kelli O'Hara
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The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
Norman O. Brown
