J. Donald Walters Quotes
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
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I was so passionate about wanting the role in 'Like Crazy,' I filmed myself in the shower because that's where one of the scenes was set. It just felt instinctive. It was a close up! It would have been strange if I'd sent off a wide shot of myself. That's not the kind of work I want to do!
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We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
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There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.