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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The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
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When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.
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The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
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I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single.
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When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
