Murray Walker Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
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The joy I get from work is just huge.
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I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
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I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens.
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I'm at a point where I don't have much time to play around anymore, so I don't really get started on the games if I won't be able to finish them.
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I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
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I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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make drawings of series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc..
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I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.
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Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.
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Look up there! That's the sky!
