N Quotes
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“Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."”
“Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.”
“Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.”
“Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.”
“Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.”
“Normally, I'm so shy.”
“Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.”
“Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.”
“Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.”
“Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.”
“Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.”
“Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.”
“Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.”
“Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.”
“Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.”
“Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.”
Source: The Beach
“Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.”
“Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.”
“Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.”
“Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.”
“Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.”
“Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.”
“Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.”
Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
“Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.”
“Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.”
“Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.”
“Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.”
“Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.”
“Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.”
“Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.”
“Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back to it. So, I know if I can read a script in one sitting, it's a fantastic script.”
“Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.”
“Normally, when you go to a beach, everybody is wearing bikinis, but on a film, you're the only one. There's like 60 people staring at you. They're doing their jobs, but they're still staring at you.”
“Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.”
“Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.”
“Normally, you have all this knowledge from all the films that you've done that you've accumulated over the years, and you can constantly look back when you're in some sort of fix and say, "Well, on so-and-so film, we did this, and it worked out fine." You can point to these things, and you can have that assurance.”
“Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.”
“Normalmente eu não tinha muita paciência para estar com uma gaja durante muito tempo. Cada uma delas queria ficar comigo o máximo que pudesse, e para isso usavam de muitas artimanhas, como fazer o meu prato preferido – moamba de galinha –, me massajar nas costas depois do bem – bom, dar-me banho com sais ou fazer cafuné antes de adormecer, tudo bem feito na benquerença do benjamim. Tinha uma, nome dela era Santinha, que conseguiu me prender por um ano. A gaja era bonita e meiga, muito submissa, o que eu muito apreciava nas mulheres. Detestava tipas armadas que quisessem discutir comigo, levantar o nariz, isso eu nunca admitia, por isso gajas que tentassem pisar o risco levavam no focinho, qual não se bate em mulheres, Saiundo?!, eu também não gostava de lhes bater, mas depois verifiquei que era a única forma de lhes meter na linha, claro, não falo de todas, falo apenas daquelas que são razingonas, que querem mandar nos homens, isso nunca! Eu sei que isso é feio, mas à s vezes é a única solução. Mas estava a falar da minha Santinha que era mesmo uma santa, e por isso fiquei com ela tanto tempo. Era doçura de criatura, melaçuda em todos os momentos, e na cama então é que ela se revelava completamente, e eu me perguntava como era que uma rapariga assim tão santÃssima, ar dela angélico, na cama podia ser assim tão brava e fogosa ao ponto de me fazer gemer toda a noite, poça!, que à s mulheres enganam muito, de sai são uma coisa, aquelas finúrias todas, de noite, na hora dos bons prazeres, até parece que têm o diabo no corpo. E assim fiquei com ela muito tempo, eu e a minha Santocas, santinha, santa. Mas um dia chateei-me com ela por causa dos muitos ciúmes que fazia a torto e a direito, não me podia ver com nenhuma rapariga e ficava logo amuada por muito tempo. Certo dia ela me viu a conversar com uma amiga, perto do Jumbo, Santinha veio ter comigo e, sem dizer nada, me puxou com força pelo braço. Perdi o controlo e ali mesmo lhe esbofeteei na presença da moça com quem estava a conversar e que era de facto uma simples só amiga, e assim que terminei aquela santa relação.”
“Normalness leads to sadness.”
“Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.”
Source: Psycho: A Novel
“Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.”
“Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'”
Source: Don Wildmon: the man the networks love to hate
“Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.”
“Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.”
Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw
“Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.”
“Norman Mailer loved women so much. I mean probably more than anything in the world he loved women. He got put into a position where he was kind of seen as the anti-feminist, although he was for the feminist movement. He just didn't want people to get consumed with the idea that this was going to be much better. He said, "Look, women should be treated equally and fairly."”
“Norman Mailer once wrote that there is a cruel but just law of life that says we must change or pay an increasing cost for remaining the same.”
Source: Self-Awareness
“Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.”
“Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
“Norman Morrison soaked himself in petrol and burned himself on the steps of the Pentagon in protest against the Vietnam war...Would it perhaps have taken greater courage to set fire to the President? A body of men who sleep soundly on a daily programme of sanctioned mass-murder are surely only distrubed by personal danger.”