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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When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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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 got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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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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'One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,' he says, 'is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.'
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On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
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In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
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I've always considered myself a person of color.
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If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
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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.
