Walker Percy Quotes
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
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I'm an old-fashioned guy.
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On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children: A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
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I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
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I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
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Beauty is a whore.
