Jess Walter Quotes
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I don't intend to die.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'
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I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
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One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
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My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
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If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
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I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.
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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
