Norton Juster Quotes

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

Norton Juster

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BestDoingEnthusiasmYouLoseFind

Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

Jim Crace

MyselfWritingShortCareerNever

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

StoryDoingFindNowWantChristmas

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

Mayer Hawthorne

GuitarPlayLittleBassDrumsKeys

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

Tom Stoppard

DinnerYearGardenTwoOutGoing

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Robert E. Sherwood

FoolManLiarPlayDamnPassionate

Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.

Roger Morris

BusinessPoliticsCityGrowing Up

I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.

Ruth Rendell

MyselfI CanFitCarefulAboutThin

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Joyce Banda

MarriageWalkStepMindMeBrave

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

Janna Levin

ScienceArtMeThinkConnectionSay

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

Jon Fishman

AttitudeMusicThinkApproachItself

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.

Dennis Quaid

AloneThoughtsBetterSomeoneYou

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Denis Leary

BestSenseWordCatholic

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