Norman Rush Quotes
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
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Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
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All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
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Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.
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The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
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In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
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My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.
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Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus. We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment. Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.
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Literature is humanity talking to itself.
