Walker Percy Quotes
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
