Norman Corwin Quotes
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
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When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
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In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
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The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.
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The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.
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Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey
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But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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I'm not a scientist. What I find interesting about my work is how, as a designer, I sit between science and the consumer and can see both a need and a solution.
