Norah Jones Quotes
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
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'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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When the country is at war, you need to support the president.
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Whenever I'm with a woman I whisper softly into her ear, 'Will you touch my vagina...?' and she's like, 'What!?' and I'm like, 'That's what you're supposed to say.'
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The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravityAre constructed with considerable care.
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Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
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If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
