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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• 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'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

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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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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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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• I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

  

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• I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

  

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• I had actually tested first with 'Young and Restless' for the role of Daisy. It came down to three of us, but I didn't book that job. A couple of weeks later, I was told that I had an audition for 'B&B.' I did two auditions, and they booked me. It was a short process, which I greatly appreciated!

  

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• I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

  

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• . . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

  

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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.

  

  Jill Paton Walsh
  • Life
  • Long
  • Job