Jess Walter Quotes
My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
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I've always just been attracted to comedy.
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I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
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Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
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I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.
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As threats emerge - from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program - we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down.
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I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.
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The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
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I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.
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My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
