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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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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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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There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.
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These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.
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You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
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No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.
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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.
