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Most movie spin-offs from TV series are doomed to failure because each episode of a series is simply an anecdote, whereas a movie should at least be a short novel - and you can't make a novel out of an anecdote.


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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