Norm MacDonald Quotes
I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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As China is the one nation with the size, population, ideology and power to contest the United States for hegemony in Asia, is war inevitable? Answer: No more inevitable than was war between Germany and Great Britain in 1914.
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I look above, and I knowI'll always be blessed with love.
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There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas. Those who are trying to challenge us at the border and breach it belong to Hamas’s military wing.
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Baby if you give me just one more try
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I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
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You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.
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I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
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If, on the other hand, the groups of underdeveloped countries, lured by the siren song of the vested interests of the developed powers which exploit their backwardness, contend futilely among themselves for the crumbs from the tables of the world's mighty, and break the ranks of numerically superior forces … our efforts will have been to no avail.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
