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Norton Juster Quotes

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

Norton Juster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1929

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Experience People Writing Book Write

To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

Jennifer Coolidge

Doing You Look Stop Know Sometimes

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

Michael Azerrad

Ideas Cool Brain Writing You Nice

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Robert Duvall

Father Great People Play Line Just

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

Say Ask Him Experiment Post He

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

Anne Donovan

Best Deep You Take Being Available

The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings.

Wole Soyinka

America Find Go Why Islam Nation

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

William Hague

History World You Lose Flexibility

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

Todd Young

Saying Doing Career Politicians

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

Tituss Burgess

Singing Song Clothes New Everything

I built private sector jobs all my life.

Rick Scott

Life My Life Built Jobs Private

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

Nolan Bushnell

Passion Training Everything Hire

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Norm MacDonald

Good Waiting Wait You Phone Go