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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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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Conduct fun, family-oriented events to enhance unit cohesion.
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I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
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More women are working because they have to, that's what it takes to put the food on the table and pay the rent. And yet we have not changed our policies to support the family. The right wing goes to the floor, and they did when they were in power, and talk about family values. Well, where are they? Family values is support for child care. Family values is equal pay for equal work so that women are paid appropriately.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
