Norman Braman Quotes
I don't believe in dynasties; I don't believe in coronations. That is not how it works in this country.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible.
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Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them - not to prohibit, and not to punish - but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness.
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
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What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
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I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.
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I don't believe in dynasties; I don't believe in coronations. That is not how it works in this country.
