David Walton Quotes

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

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• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • World
  • Men
  • Silent

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
  • University
  • Received

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Cruel

• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • Living
  • Playwright

• I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nature

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Price

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Support

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Home

• The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.

  

  Kevin Canty
  • World

• I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Real
  • Heart

• With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Good
  • Age
  • Tennis

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

  

  David Walton
  • People
  • Journey