Norm Crosby (Norman Lawrence Crosby) Quotes
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.
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As every faith teaches us -- and as presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt to Reagan to Clinton have reminded us -- we must as Americans, try to see our nation not just through our own eyes, but through the eyes of others.
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The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.
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Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
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I don't do the same show twice. I've never done a show word for word.
