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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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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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 don't mind dating younger men now.
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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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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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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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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
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You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
