Norm MacDonald Quotes
I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.
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Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
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I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
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If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
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A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.
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I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good.
