Jess Walter Quotes
Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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I just can't read music.
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There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.
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Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.
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Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
