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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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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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These trips had a large impact on the future of the City of Wilkes-Barre and where we are going on the financial side, ... The city was in financial distress. I'm very proud that we paid all our bills and our vendors.
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If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations. I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is. I have to worry less about what the character means if I trust the director.
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I am not entirely off grid. I send a lot of email. But the way Facebook constantly alters its privacy settings to bamboozle you into giving more away is just underhand.
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Other people are not medicine.
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When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.
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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.
