Edward Norton Quotes
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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I'm not super into sports.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
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I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
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I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
