Kenny Baker Quotes
There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
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One way a collaboration can go wrong is if your connection is inauthentic or overly prescriptive.
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With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.
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You'd have to have lived under a rock somewhere to not have heard of it.
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
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I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.
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There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.
