Kathy Baker Quotes
I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
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I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
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Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.
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I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
