Leighton Paul Walsh (Walshy Fire) Quotes
I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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My hunger is always there.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
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Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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Are we going to like it? I'm not sure, ... I don't like some of the games I'm seeing now.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
