David Walker Quotes
Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
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I've spent my life making blunders.
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‘Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end-not that I suppose one could do it-they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.’
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When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.
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I thought it would be a lot tougher. Once they showed us the right way to do it, it wasn't too hard. I still need some practice though.
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Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.
