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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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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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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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
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Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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Thanksgiving Day, we do a huge lunch. Big family, like, 60 people, we get together. Everybody brings a covered dish, everybody brings a dessert, and we go all out.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
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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.
