Jo Walton Quotes

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

What you can't pay back you pay forward.

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

I was small but slow as a college tackle.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I'm kind of the funny guy that hopefully kind of wins your heart if I did my job.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

I've had a great career. I've had a great life. I am truly blessed by my working experiences.

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.

I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.

We're all working together that's the secret.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

The world is Absolutely Brilliant. Difficult sometimes. Confusing often. But humorous almost always.

Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.

f you don't think outside of the box, you may just get stuck inside of a cubicle.