Norman Lloyd Quotes

There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

Norman Lloyd

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Heroism

• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Winning
  • Years
  • Independence

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Depression

• When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Time
  • See

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Book
  • Understanding

• I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Working

• I don't mean to be funny.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Mean

• Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Pretty
  • Performance
  • Room

• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • School
  • Wife
  • Sleep

• There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.

  

  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Forces

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.

  

  Norman Lloyd
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Conflict