Norton Juster Quotes

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

Norton Juster

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I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

Jimmy Iovine

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We love being told good stories, and we love telling good stories, and all of our energy and our effort and our thought and our passion goes into telling the best story that we can.

Joe Russo

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

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I like to fish. I'm an outdoorsman. I love to hunt and fish.

Steve Zahn

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There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Michael Specter

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I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

Lucille Ball

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We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

Jon Corzine

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A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Dean Bakopoulos

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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Bobby Fischer

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Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

Ashley Wagner

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At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

Tika Sumpter

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