Edward Norton Quotes

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
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• Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
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• As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
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• The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

  

  Dana Boente
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
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• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
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• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
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• I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I grew up in the Midwest, and I was a short, fat, little Jewish kid... but it was just different. People didn't understand, so I had to deal with it. One day, I physically dealt with it, and it never happened again. I'm not saying that's the way to do it, but you have to stand up for yourself, period, end of story.

  

  Bill Goldberg
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• A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
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• The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.

  

  Carole King
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• I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects.

  

  David Cassidy
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• Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.

  

  Keith Ellison
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• I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

  

  Edward Norton
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