Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.
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What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
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Every once in a while, there's somebody who will recognize me and want a picture, which is cool; it's flattering.
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I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
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Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.
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Can you get halfway around the world? Can you do a walking trail of the movie?
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Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
