Kathleen Norris Quotes
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I write music every day.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.
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I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
