Edward Norton Quotes
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.
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Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.
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People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.
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There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.
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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
