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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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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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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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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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
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I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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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.
