Norman Jewison Quotes
I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.