Jim Walsh Quotes
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
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To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.
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The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
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I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.
