Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
