Jess Walter Quotes
There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Hospitality knows no gender or race.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.
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There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.
