- Life
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important for me that I'm able to walk around the city without being bothered all the time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm performing I just want to tell the audience something. I want every person watching to walk away feeling something.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't follow me around, and they don't stop me in a way where it's excessive or invasive. It's always respectful. If it's not, I set my boundaries, and I walk away. That's just what you kind of have to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving birth to triplets at the age of forty-three is no walk in the park, but I had little choice. I got married at the young age of forty, and both my husband, Shirish, and I were keen to start a family soon.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020