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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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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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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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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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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In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.
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It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
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To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
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It felt like family from the first time we talked.
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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.
