- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walk Quotes
Every step says something.
These walk quotes range from literal strides through city streets under watchful cameras to the swagger of someone who owns a room the moment they enter it, alongside reflections on why some people can't walk away from work they love. Readers drawn to this theme often also browse our Life quotes for more on personal direction.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has influenced everything from my tattooing to how I talk to how I walk, I guess. I was classically trained in piano since I was 6. Then in my teens, my older sister introduced me to Metallica. It was all over. I had a mohawk soon after that.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love knowing that if I was dropped off in Trafalgar Square, I could walk in any direction and see something amazing or eat something delicious.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will write an entire script but not be commissioned by anyone. I want the freedom to walk away from it. If you're uncomfortable, I will go away. There is no middle ground with me. Also because if I change my character, my story changes.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020