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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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.
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Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.
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Now turn the page, come along on the ride, and let me tell you about the death and life of Charlie St. Cloud.
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Those days acting was not considered a respectable profession. Only prostitutes and other such lower classes were associated with it.
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
