Norman Lloyd Quotes
If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it.
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I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.
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We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.
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No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
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People have created feuds between me and other artists.
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If you're in the groove, you get something back from the audience that is so exciting and rewarding that no film or television work can possibly compete.
