Norman Jewison Quotes
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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I think you get better as you get older.
