Norm MacDonald Quotes
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is better to protect your heart or to take the biggest risk of all.
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If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
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If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
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One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
