Walker Percy Quotes
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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I love working in New York.
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Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
