Norman Lloyd Quotes
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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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.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.
