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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I've always dreamt of somewhere down the line getting one match out of Hogan, just because that was always a dream.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I think whether it's a good idea or not to take the startup plunge comes down to the responsibilities of the individual. If you have a family to care for or a huge mortgage payment, then quitting your steady day job to launch a startup probably isn't the best decision to make.
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We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
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Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree.
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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.