Edward Norton Quotes
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.
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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
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Not enough people in this world are happy.
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I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
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It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.
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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.
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I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I’ve always dreamt of - to be talking about myself, and about a play that I’ve written, and to be photographed. It was what I wanted. Now it’s just part of the job.
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Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.
Garry Kasparov -
Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
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All those events in history were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.
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I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.
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Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
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I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
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It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
