David Walton Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
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I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it's said by the man she loves.
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I love Boston, and at some point, my plan is to have a home back there.
