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It was sort of liberating in a way. We had to concentrate on arranging the tracks, we couldn't embellish them needlessly.


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JESSYE NORMAN Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
NORMAN COUSINS The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the...
NORMAN ANGELL Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thi...
NORMAN COUSINS I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in compe...
NORMAN BRODSKY The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a...
NORMAN MAILER The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your re...
NORMAN COUSINS Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
MARSHA NORMAN Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
NORMAN COUSINS Laughter is inner jogging.
NORMAN COUSINS Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its a...
NORMAN PODHORETZ If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
NORMAN DOUGLAS One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's...
NORMAN MAILER Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been...
NORMAN BORLAUG Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer...
NORMAN BORLAUG There are no miracles in agricultural production.
NORMAN BORLAUG Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...
NORMAN LINDSAY Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.
RALPH NORMAN Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
NORMAN MAILER The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the...
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