Elwood G. Norris (Woody Norris) Quotes
I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Acting is in your soul.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
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I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family.
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
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I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
