Norman Mailer Quotes

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Norman Mailer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007

Topics

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If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

Jinder Mahal

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Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

Jerry Leiber

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I'm not friends with a lot of my exes, and I think there's a reason for that.

Andrew Rannells

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I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Max Baer

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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

Michael Connelly

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Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

Meryl Streep

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I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

Amy Adams

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Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

Stephen Daldry

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When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.

Trinny Woodall

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I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

Trent Reznor

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Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.

Michael Specter

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The whole reason I moved to the U.S. to be coached by Alberto Salazar is to be able to improve 1 or 2 per cent. I was sick of coming sixth in the world, seventh in the world, and get close to a medal, but not quite there, half-a-second.

Mo Farah

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