Norm Parker Quotes
It's fun. If I ever think, 'Oh God, I've got to go to work today,' I'd hang it up. Being involved with young kids, I think it definitely does do something for you. I'd rather do that than go play bingo or something.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
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If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.
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A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
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It is important to create credit absorption capacity rather than to just enhance lending targets.
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It's fun. If I ever think, 'Oh God, I've got to go to work today,' I'd hang it up. Being involved with young kids, I think it definitely does do something for you. I'd rather do that than go play bingo or something.
