Jill Paton Walsh Quotes

You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

Jill Paton Walsh

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PersonalityMeBelieveYouMade

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Roscoe Mitchell

GoBellNextWhistleSaxophoneLike

In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?

Romelu Lukaku

FootballYouPlayHappenAnything

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

Russ

SongCreatingProducerCritical

We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.

Monica Crowley

CompetitionDriveInsuranceDownBuy

Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end.

Javier Camara

MomentBeginningEndSometimesGoing

Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it.

Don Winslow

WorkPoliceNew YorkCorruptionNew

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

Dick Cavett

LifeMusicHeartBrainMy LifeWish

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Diablo Cody

ShowDevelopTV ShowThanMuchTV

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Peter Thiel

MoneyWorldProblemYouWealthDebt

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

Sherri Shepherd

ChangeI AmMeYouDiabetesGo

Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.

Noreena Hertz

ChildrenParentsPeopleRetirement

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

Mark Foley

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