Jill Paton Walsh Quotes
There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.
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I like doing yoga; I like running and cycling - just staying active. And I love a facial.
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Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class
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There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
