Walter Alston Quotes
Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.
Walter Alston
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
Kate Baldwin
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
Tea Leoni
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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
Vernon L. Smith
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
Otis Rush
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
Nancy Kress
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
Maira Kalman
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I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
Lesley Garrett
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Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.
J. C. Ryle
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
T. J. Perkins
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Cal Thomas
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I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
Paul Auster
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Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.
Walter Alston