Elwood G. Norris (Woody Norris) Quotes
I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
Quotes to Explore
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.
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I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
