Jess Walter Quotes
There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.
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Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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I don't think I should be telling you every 10 minutes what to think. I like to leave the audience alone with the magic. I tend to trust the material, or I don't do it.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.
