Walker Percy Quotes
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.
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The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.
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As a child singer, I never sang a single track for my father or uncle.
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I'm here to tell you the coffee was hot, the orange juice was cold, New York's still there and Reagan National is back.
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I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
