Edward Norton Quotes
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
Quotes to Explore
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.
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Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
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My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
