Norm MacDonald Quotes
If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there Hollywood weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
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Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.
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In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
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I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.
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Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with each other and for the good of the broader society. It is necessary because much of what God determines to do, or not do, in the world is determined by His relationship to His people.
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If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there Hollywood weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.
