Jill Paton Walsh Quotes
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.
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Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
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Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
