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Edward Norton Quotes

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1969

Topics

Better Magic You Create Bubble More

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'

Flying Think End You Why Way

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Small Loved Scenery Enough Acting

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

School Independent Grammar System

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Change Men You Before Physically

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Mother Evil Wit Things Whose Those

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'

School Book Library Week Year Down

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father Brother Parents Me Kitchen

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Miriam Margolyes

Relationship Children Vision Parents

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together.

Together Joy Me Brotherhood Artist

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Phillips Brooks

Music Religion Face Us Christianity

The main thing as a director, you always want to have a bit of a worry about the material you're going to get yourself into. You want to be a bit scared of it so that you have that excitement of having to climb the mountain.

Mountain Yourself Climb Worry You

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

People Environmental Impact Eat Well

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