J. Donald Walters Quotes
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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History is not hatred.
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There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
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Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
