Norm MacDonald Quotes
There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.
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Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.
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A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
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There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.
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There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."
