Norman Mailer Quotes
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Quotes to Explore
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
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You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.
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We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.
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I can't take his genius any more.
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I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.
