Norah O'Donnell Quotes
I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Enthusiasm is something so positive.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
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I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.
