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Jess Walter Quotes

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

Jess Walter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 20, 1965

Topics

Love Book Process Trying You Fall

You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

Andrea Bocelli

Work Music Passion Great Day Voice

Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.

John Lahr

Knowledge Trust People Theatre Look

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Amy Sedaris

Failure Stupid Feel Problem You

I'm not cut out to lug babies around!

Sophie Hannah

Out Cut Babies Around

I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

Tom Noonan

Time Chance Think You Down Build

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

Rose McIver

Loved Enough You Look Wrong Expect

A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

Minna Antrim

Kiss Fever Sign Inward Visible

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Age Truth Simple Architecture Space

When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.

Jason Day

Lost Kind Ran Dad Disciplinarian

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

Josh Hartnett

Girl Hat Mom You Down Said

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Jose Bergamin

You Way Going Get Anywhere Even

Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

Doc Hastings

Enough Mission Security Transition