Kenny Baker Quotes
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.
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I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
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Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.
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The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
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I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
