“ Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement. ”
- Peter Weir- Copy
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“ I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. ”
- Julia Roberts- Copy
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“ You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value. ”
- Jane Bryant Quinn- Copy
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“ It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on. ”
- Richard McCabe- Copy
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“ I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get. ”
- Blanche Lincoln- Copy
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“ Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty. ”
- Louis Kaplan- Copy
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“ Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both. ”
- Ethel Barrymore- Copy
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“ The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well. ”
- Al Oerter- Copy
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“ A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November. ”
- Kevin Nealon- Copy
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“ Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen. ”
- Steven B. Beach- Copy
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“ Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. ”
- Edward de Bono- Copy
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“ The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
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“ If you make a joke in an area which is for some reason normally random out of bounds, then you might find something out, you might put your finger on something. But it's a matter of finding yourself in that area rather than setting out to look for trouble. ”
- Chris Morris- Copy
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“ Listening to a story and listening to a piece of music, however, have interesting similarities and differences. When we submit to listen to a story we purposefully suspend one end of the dialog that normally takes place when we're talking with people… ”
- Paul Lansky- Copy
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“ I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. ”
- Amitabh Bachchan- Copy
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“ What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being — while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up. Normally we don't experience, at least don't want to experience, our sexual fulfillment as distinct from or opposed to our personal fulfillment… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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