Norman Rush Quotes
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
Quotes to Explore
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.
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It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
