George W. Norris Quotes
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
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God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.
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But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by a window for hours watching it fall. The silence of snowfall. You can use that. It's best when there's background lighting, for example a street lamp. Or when you go outside and let it flutter down on you. That's real riches, that is.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.
