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.
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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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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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Dreams don't have deadlines.
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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.
