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When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Edward Harrison Norton
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As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.
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I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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