Patricia Norris Quotes
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.
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With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
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Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.
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Fans are hungry for original artwork.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
