David Walton Quotes
My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.
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I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
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My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.
