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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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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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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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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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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'I have now learnt to despise you,' he said. 'You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!'
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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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I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.
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My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. 'You can't do that,' I said. 'You can only hear out of one ear.' 'No, I can hear out of both,' he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.
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I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.
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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.
