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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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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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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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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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 had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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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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It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.
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I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I see Rick Perry the other day. ... He's doing very poorly in the polls. He put on glasses so people will think he's smart. And it just doesn't work! You know people can see through the glasses!
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
