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Jill Paton Walsh Quotes

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.

Jill Paton Walsh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 29, 1937

Topics

Life Job Travel Solitude Long Quiet

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

Joan Armatrading

Change Music People Look Early Try

For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.

Joel Parkinson

Myself Simple Me Waves Worry Real

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

Jennifer Lynch

Love Story Someone Help Something

Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe that sounds like I'm throwing it away and I'm not, I'll still do the best damn job I can, but it doesn't mean the same thing. I'm going to get the answer for myself one of these days. It's the male menopause, that's what it is.

Mel Gibson

Myself Best Job Acting I Can Damn

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

John Shirley

Nature People Born Try Within Fine

You may look at the people who sell the pages of the tabloids, and they're more famous for their personal exploits. I know all about these people, but when was the last time I saw something they've done or bought an album?

Rocky Carroll

Time People Famous You Look Know

To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Life Happy Be Happy Important Most

The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.

Jose Andres

Good Culture You Christmas Will

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Diane Kruger

Beauty Women Myself World Feel Over

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

Christopher Atkins

Beer Grace Princess Backstage Paul

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

Richard Le Gallienne

Nature Mirror Man Think Long She

I read somewhere that when I go on stage, people realize that they're not me and they feel better. When I walk off the stage, people know who I really am. I'm not saying it's great comedy, cool comedy or better comedy - but that's what I do, and I do it first for myself.

Richard Lewis

Great Myself Walk People Me Cool