Norman MacEwen Quotes
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
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In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!
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Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.
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The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.
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If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.
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'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.
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When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.
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Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
